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J are graphically shown on Figure 3. An additional five vph from each direction were added to the opposing traffic flow (i.e., leaving in the first hour and entering in the second hour) to account for drop offs and pick ups, respectively. The project generated trips from Figure 3 were added to the ambient traffic forecast volumes to obtain the total traffic forecast with project volumes shown on Figure 3. If the church facility is not developed and 10 homes are built instead, the major trip generation times would be during the weekday morning and afternoon peak periods. However, based on trip generation rates from the previously referenced ITE handbook, 10 homes can be expected to generate seven total (inbound and outbound) trips in the morning peak and 10 total trips in the afternoon peak. These volumes of trips are not significant and are not expected to have any adverse impact on traffic operations on Palani Road. Therefore, a formal analysis of the 10 homes was not conducted. TRAFFIC IMPACT ANALYSIS Two distinct level of service methodologies from the Transportation Research Board 1994 Highway Caoacitv Manual Uodate were utilized to calculate levels of service. The first methodology calculated levels of service at the unsignalized intersection of the project access road with Palani Road. The second methodology calculated levels of service for Palani Road serving as a rural two lane highway. The methodology for calculating levels of service at unsignalized intersections does it for several critical movements (the outbound movements from the stop sign controlled side street and the left turn movements from the main through street) based a.