Development Application part 6 of 10 Traffic Impact Assessment - MCU13/0092

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4.0     TRAFFIC OPERATIONS



4.1     Assessment Scenarios


        It is standard practice when analysing future year traffic operations to adopt a ten year design horizon

        from the year of full occupation. Therefore, the following development staging has been adopted:


                 Traffic Counts:                                  2013

                 Development Application:                         2013

                 Construction and Full Occupation:                2015

                 Occupation plus 10 years:                        2025




4.2     Background Traffic Growth

        The scenarios modelled reflect the development staging with detailed analysis undertaken on the existing

        conditions, opening year (2015)and the future year (2025). A background traffic growth rate of 1.8% per

        annum     has been adopted, as sourced from the Department of Local Government and Planning (DLGP)

        Population Forecasts. Given the site’s proximity of the site to border with Maroochy, we have taken an
        average of the growth rates of resident population in Noosa (0.9%)and Maroochy (2.6%).The application

        of this rate equates to an approximate 22% increase in local traffic volumes over the next 12 years (2013-

        2025).




4.3     Traffic Generation


        The peak hour traffic generation for the proposed development has been estimated by applying published

        traffic generation rates from the RTA Traffic Generating Developments as follows:


        _        Thursday Evening Peak: V(P) 20A(S) + 51A(F) + 155A(SM)+ 46A(SS) + 22A(OM)
                                                        =




                 Saturday Peak:       V(P)   =
                                                 38A(S) + 13A(F)+ 147A(SM) + 107A(SS)

        The abbreviations are as follows:


                 V(P): vehicle trips per 1,000m2 GFA

                 A(S): total Slow Trade GFA (m2)

                 A(F): total Fast Trade GFA (m2)

                 A(SM): total Supermarket GFA (m2)

                 A(SS): total Specialty Shops GFA (m2)

                 A(OM): total Office / Medical GFA (m2)

        It is estimated that the proposal will generate in the order of 205 vte during a typical Thursday evening


        peak hour and 242vte during a Saturday peak hour. It is assumed that both the Thursday evening and
         Saturday morning peak hour in:out split is typically 50:50. The entry/exit movements expected to result



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