Traffic impact assessment of new commercial developments in the neighborhoods of Skudai town

Urban areas in Malaysia including Johor Bahru are witnessing a rampant commercial development. The purpose of development can easily be defeated by unanticipated traffic congestion and other negative impacts. This paper deals with traffic impact assessment (TIA) of proposed commercial development in...

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Main Author:	Zaki, Nazir Huzairy
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2013
Subjects:	HE Transportation and Communications
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/33300/1/NazirHuzairyZakiMFKA2013.pdf
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spelling	my-utm-ep.333002017-09-19T03:15:17Z Traffic impact assessment of new commercial developments in the neighborhoods of Skudai town 2013-01 Zaki, Nazir Huzairy HE Transportation and Communications Urban areas in Malaysia including Johor Bahru are witnessing a rampant commercial development. The purpose of development can easily be defeated by unanticipated traffic congestion and other negative impacts. This paper deals with traffic impact assessment (TIA) of proposed commercial development in the neighbourhoods of Skudai Town. In traffic impact studies, estimation of mean trip rate is a central component for TIA and adoption of inaccurate trip rates can result into underestimation or overestimation of development traffic, both with undesirable impacts. This paper analyses three regimes of Trip Rate Analysis, Cross- Classification Analysis and Regression Analysis techniques to determine the future development traffic for a proposed Tesco hypermarket (TH) within Skudai Town. Furthermore, the obtained mean trip rates for critically examined for their adoption and forecasting traffic for base year 2015 and horizon year 2025. The results indicated significant variances in the estimated entry mean trip rates when compared with the entry trip rates from Trip Generation Manual (TGM) Malaysia. These estimated mean trip rates were then tested to measure the performance of critical intersection in the immediate vicinity of proposed Tesco Hypermarket for the opening year 2015. Critical Intersection is analysed using SIDRA software to estimate delay, a criterion for determining the level of service (LOS) provided to motorists. The traffic projections made for horizon year 2025 were further analysed, depicting a LOS F with 2716.9s of average delay. Furthermore, traffic improvements were proposed to mitigate the impact of future development traffic. In this regard, the study provided a framework for the estimation of trip rates for local Malaysian conditions and their adoption guidelines. These offer indispensible assistance to TIA that can assist developers or local authorities in decision making. 2013-01 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/33300/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/33300/1/NazirHuzairyZakiMFKA2013.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:70121?site_name=Restricted Repository masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Civil Engineering Faculty of Civil Engineering
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spellingShingle	HE Transportation and Communications Zaki, Nazir Huzairy Traffic impact assessment of new commercial developments in the neighborhoods of Skudai town
description	Urban areas in Malaysia including Johor Bahru are witnessing a rampant commercial development. The purpose of development can easily be defeated by unanticipated traffic congestion and other negative impacts. This paper deals with traffic impact assessment (TIA) of proposed commercial development in the neighbourhoods of Skudai Town. In traffic impact studies, estimation of mean trip rate is a central component for TIA and adoption of inaccurate trip rates can result into underestimation or overestimation of development traffic, both with undesirable impacts. This paper analyses three regimes of Trip Rate Analysis, Cross- Classification Analysis and Regression Analysis techniques to determine the future development traffic for a proposed Tesco hypermarket (TH) within Skudai Town. Furthermore, the obtained mean trip rates for critically examined for their adoption and forecasting traffic for base year 2015 and horizon year 2025. The results indicated significant variances in the estimated entry mean trip rates when compared with the entry trip rates from Trip Generation Manual (TGM) Malaysia. These estimated mean trip rates were then tested to measure the performance of critical intersection in the immediate vicinity of proposed Tesco Hypermarket for the opening year 2015. Critical Intersection is analysed using SIDRA software to estimate delay, a criterion for determining the level of service (LOS) provided to motorists. The traffic projections made for horizon year 2025 were further analysed, depicting a LOS F with 2716.9s of average delay. Furthermore, traffic improvements were proposed to mitigate the impact of future development traffic. In this regard, the study provided a framework for the estimation of trip rates for local Malaysian conditions and their adoption guidelines. These offer indispensible assistance to TIA that can assist developers or local authorities in decision making.
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qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Zaki, Nazir Huzairy
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title	Traffic impact assessment of new commercial developments in the neighborhoods of Skudai town
title_short	Traffic impact assessment of new commercial developments in the neighborhoods of Skudai town
title_full	Traffic impact assessment of new commercial developments in the neighborhoods of Skudai town
title_fullStr	Traffic impact assessment of new commercial developments in the neighborhoods of Skudai town
title_full_unstemmed	Traffic impact assessment of new commercial developments in the neighborhoods of Skudai town
title_sort	traffic impact assessment of new commercial developments in the neighborhoods of skudai town
granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Civil Engineering
granting_department	Faculty of Civil Engineering
publishDate	2013
url	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/33300/1/NazirHuzairyZakiMFKA2013.pdf
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