ITE Announces Merger with ASCE
Hot off the press from The Onion – The Institute of Transportation Engineers announced today it is merging with the American Society of Civil Engineers. ASCE Executive Director, Patrick Natale, was...
View ArticleA Radical Change to ITE Membership/Dues
I’m a big fan of the Pareto Principle. Richard Koch and Perry Marshall have illuminated the power law behind this seemingly natural principle in their understandable business books. This is a magical...
View ArticleHow Long Should a Valet Parking Zone Be?
We’ve done several traffic impact studies for developments with restaurants on the ground floor that had proposed valet zones. A nagging question has been, “how much storage is needed in the valet...
View ArticleThe Future of the Institute of Transportation Engineers
ITE is undergoing a massive change this summer. Shawn Leight, the District 4 Director to the international board, told me Tom Brahms (Executive Director) and Phil Caruso (Deputy Executive Director)...
View ArticleEndorsement for ITE International Vice-President: Shawn Leight
If you’re an ITE member, today is your chance to vote for our next international vice-president. Jimmy Lin and Shawn Leight are the two candidates. Mr. Lin has a very impressive background as a...
View ArticleAnnouncing Open Source Trip Generation Data
Photo courtesy nipitphand from FreeDigitalPhotos.net The daily trips per household in Minnesota dropped from 11.1 trips in 2000 to 8.8 trips in 2010. You can read recent articles from the University...
View ArticleMeet Me at ITE Western District Conference
Mike Spack to Present "Top 10 Ways Video Data Collection is Improving My Engineering" Join me on Monday, July 20th at the 2015 Western District Meeting in Las Vegas, NV. I will be presenting from 10:30...
View ArticleIs NACTO Better Than ITE?
The National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) came on the scene in 2012 and I really like their website. The website is easy to navigate and it has great graphics from their Urban...
View ArticleWhat the ITE Trip Generation Manual Isn’t Telling You
The Institute of Transportation Engineers’ (ITE) Trip Generation Manual suggests that “the user may wish to modify trip generation rates presented in this document to reflect … special characteristics...
View ArticleWhen Do You Need A Traffic Study?
The short answer – when a government agency tells you. The longer answer – traffic studies are typically required when: There is an expectation of traffic congestion anticipated with new development...
View ArticleHow to Right Size Parking
Guest Post by Bryant Ficek, PE, PTOE, Vice President at Spack Consulting. Determining the appropriate amount of parking to provide can be tricky for any development. Too little and customers/employees...
View ArticleYou Are Invited: The Future of Trip Generation Data Webinar
You’re invited to attend a free webinar to learn about what’s wrong with ITE’s Trip Generation Manual and what we’re doing about it with our free www.TripGeneration.org data set. Join myself and Bryant...
View Article4 Suggestions for the Future of ITE’s Trip Generation
Here is a link to an email I received from ITE about the future of their Trip Generation effort. Basically, they are looking at modernizing their Trip Generation system to include Urban Trip...
View ArticleBlack Friday Trip Generation at Big Box Retailers
Black Friday Retail Traffic is 2x a Normal Day’s Traffic Big Box Retailers We collected trip generation data at four big box retailers in Minnesota over the Black Friday retail sale event in November...
View ArticleNeighborhood Street Design Guidelines
The Institute of Transportation Engineers published a fact sheet titled Fact Sheet 6: Designing Avenues and Streets in Residential Areas. It’s a very good reference for anyone involved with the design...
View ArticleTop 5 Learnings from the 2016 ITE Annual Meeting
Guest Post by Bryant Ficek, PE, PTOE, Vice President at Spack Consulting. The Institute of Transportation Engineers’ Annual Meeting was held in Anaheim, California a couple of weeks ago and I was lucky...
View ArticleMeet Me at ITE Western District Conference
Mike Spack to Present "Top 10 Ways Video Data Collection is Improving My Engineering" Join me on Monday, July 20th at the 2015 Western District Meeting in Las Vegas, NV. I will be presenting from 10:30...
View ArticleBlack Friday Trip Generation at Big Box Retailers
Black Friday Retail Traffic is 2x a Normal Day’s Traffic Big Box Retailers We collected trip generation data at four big box retailers in Minnesota over the Black Friday retail sale event in November...
View ArticleRyan Martinson Interview: Resilience in a Transportation System
Ryan Martinson of Stantec recently posted a paper titled Resilience in a Transportation System: Should ITE Include Resilience in its Foundational Documents. Ryan has focused his transportation career...
View ArticleLocal Data Proves Best Again – Trip Generation at Hotels
Guest Post by Max Moreland, PE, Director of Operations at Traffic Data Inc. A key initiative of Mike on Traffic and Spack Consulting is to actively share our traffic engineering data and knowledge with...
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