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Figure 4 in the Appendix illustrates design year 2035 no-build traffic volumes, including traffic from the aforementioned projects as well as NJDOT growth rates. It is MRA's opinion that the design year 2035 no-build traffic volumes may represent an overestimation of actual traffic based on the fact that all approved projects are assumed to be built-out for the design year.
Site generated and distributed traffic was then surcharged onto no-build volumes and are shown on Figure 5 in the Appendix.
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 2025).
Findings were that exiting movements at the right-in/right-out driveway at East Veterans Highway, will do so at level of service “B” for both the AM and PM peak street hours for the 2035 design year. Therefore, this driveway will operate within acceptable traffic engineering parameters.
Findings at the Butterfly Road full access driveway were that exiting movements and left turn entry movements will operate at level of service “A” during both the AM and PM peak street hours for the 2035 design year. Therefore, this driveway will operate within acceptable traffic engineering parameters.