Jackson Township Planning Board
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Based on access to residential areas and higher order roadways, traffic was distributed as follows:
50 percent to and from the north on North New Prospect Road
50 percent to and from south on North New Prospect Road
Anticipated site generated and distributed traffic volumes are shown on Figure 3 in the Appendix.
A design year of 2035 was assumed in accordance with Ocean County Planning Board protocol. The New Jersey Department of Transportation's (NJDOT) background traffic growth rate data for the area was consulted and based base 2025 traffic volumes were expanded by 10 percent in order to arrive at design year 2035 no-build traffic volumes which are shown on Figure 4 in the Appendix. Site generated 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 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 indicates near to or at capacity conditions and is generally considered the limit of acceptable level of service and delay.