McDonough & Rea Associates, Inc.
Traffic and Transportation Consulting 1431 Lakewood Road, Suite C, Manasquan, NJ 08736 • (732) 528-7076 • Fax (732) 528-6673 105 Elm Street, Lower Level, Westfield, NJ 07090 • (908) 789-7180 • Fax (908) 789-7181
Jackson Township Planning Board
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January 9, 2026
Site generated and distributed traffic volumes are shown on Figure 3 in the Appendix.
PROJECTION OF FUTURE TRAFFIC VOLUMES
A design year of 2035 was assumed for the proposed day care center in accordance with Ocean County protocol. The NJDOT Annual Background Growth Rate Table recommends a growth rate of 1.5 percent per year for local roadways within urban areas of Ocean County. MRA utilized a 2.0 percent growth rate for 3 years and 0.5 percent for 10 years to project 2035 no-build traffic volumes (±15%). Site generated traffic volumes were then added to the 2035 no-build volumes. Figure 4 in the Appendix illustrates year 2035 build traffic volumes at the study locations.
Traffic engineers calculate levels of service of unsignalized and signalized intersections which relate to the quality of traffic flow. Level of service is a measure of average control delay. Average control delay is the time lost due to deceleration and the amount of time from when a vehicle is stopped for a traffic control device (or at the end of the queue) to when the vehicle departs the intersection. Delay is a relative quantity of driver discomfort, frustration, fuel consumption, and loss in travel time.
Levels of service range from “A” to “F,” with “A” being the highest, or best attainable level of service. Level of service “E” with average control delays of not more than 50 seconds per vehicle at an unsignalized intersection or 80 seconds per vehicle at a signalized intersection indicates near to or at capacity conditions and is generally considered the limit of acceptable level of service and delay.
Full definitions of levels of service for unsignalized and signalized intersections as well as level of service summaries are included in the Appendix. The intersections studied by this report were analyzed according to the procedures set forth in the Highway Capacity Manual 2022, using the McTrans Highway Capacity Software (HCS 2023).
SITE DRIVEWAY (SCHOOL A) TO FARMINGDALE ROAD
At the site driveway to Farmingdale Road as an egress only, findings were that the southbound approach is projected to operate at level of service “B” or better for both the AM and PM peak street hours.