Longbeach Mall : traffic impact assessment

[摘要] This Traffic Impact Assessment (TIA) was commissioned in March 1998 as a supporting document toan application for the rezoning of an ert in Noordhoek from general housing to commercial use. Theproposal at the time was to develop a medium·sized 15 000 m2 GLA shopping centre with supportingoffices and a Health & Racquet Club. All the work (including managing the traffic counting team) wascarried out by myself under the guidance of Dr Piet Jordaan at Gibb Africa Consulting Engineers.As financial backing and anchor tenants were secured for the development, the size of the proposedshopping centre was increased from a local facilily to a regional facilily of 31 000 m2 GFA to bedeveloped in two phases. This necessitated a complete revision of the approach and content of theTIA. Owing to the regional nature of the new development, the TIA was expanded to include a widergeographical area of influence and a longer development period. This revised TIA was carried out bymyself between September 1998 and March 1999 under the guidance of Dr Herman Joubert.Longbeach Mall opened for business in April 2001 complete with upgraded road network asrecommended in the TIAThe TIA is submitted as the final-year project for my Master's Degree in Traffic & TransportationEngineering. For the purposes of completion, an after·study of current traffic conditions on the localroad infrastructure has also been included. The after·study was carried out in October 2001 (6 monthsafter Longbeach Mall opened) and includes traffic counts at critical intersections during the Saturdaymorning peak period, observations of parking area utilisation, observations of shopping centreoccupancy and discussions of the possible reasons for differences between predicted and actual trafficvolumes.Confirmation that the study is original and was carried out by myself and permission from Arcus Gibb(Ply) Ltd to use the study as part of my final-year project, is provided in Appendix A.

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