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' ~ PAHOA COMPLEX OFFSITE IMPROVEMENTS TRAFFIC IMPACT ANALYSIS REPORT ' Protect Generated Traffic The traditional three-step process of trip generation, trip distribution, and trip ~+a.... assignment was used to forecast future traffic that would be generated by the proposed project. The trip generation step forecasts the number of new trips that would be produced in each of the two study periods. The trip distribution step allocates these new trips by direction of travel. Finally, the trip assignment step assigns the trips to the ' specific turning movements at the study intersections. ' The trip generation step forecasts the volume of vehicle trips that would be generated by the proposed project during the morning and afternoon peak periods. As previously stated, the police stand and fire station are not expected to be major traffic generators during the morning and afternoon peak hours. However, the Motor Vehicle Registration ' and Driver Licensing offices are expected to generate trips during these periods. There are no convenient references that provide data on the number of trips that this type of land use would generate; therefore, estimates provided by the County were utilized. They estimate that the Motor Vehicle Registration office would handle 1,250 1 transactions per month while the Driver Licensing office would handle 600 per month. ~~w The average numbers of monthly trips were converted to average daily (20 days per month) and hourly (8 hours per day) trip rates. The trips to the Motor Vehicle Registration office were assumed to be 50% higher than average at the end of the month, while trips to the Drivers Licensing office were assumed to be 25% higher. This I resulted in 12 morning and afternoon trips to the Motor Vehicle Registration office, and 5 morning and aftemoon trips to the Driver Licensing office. The numbers of inbound and outbound trips were assumed to be equal to the peak rate in the morning peak hour. During the aftemoon peak hour, the inbound trips were equal to the average rate while the outbound trips were assumed to be at the peak rate. The trip generation analyses for the year 2008 are summarized on Table 1. The two proposed County offices would generate 17 inbound and outbound trips in the morning peak hour, and 12 inbound and 17 outbound trips in the afternoon peak hour. k M & E PACIFIC, INC. PAGE 5 60018945.00300 December 2006 Pahoa Complex TIAR.doc