The ITE Trip Generation Handbook, a recommended practice on application of trip generation, provides a starting point to reflect means by which vehicle trip generation rates can be affected by density and diversity. Current research is examining how these rates are also affected by transit proximity and regional accessibility.  The Web briefing is sponsored by the Transportation Planning Council and will provide presentations on the current research related to trip generation rates at transit oriented development, mixed-use developments and influences from other land use variables.

At the conclusion of the course, participants should be able to:

1) Discuss status of the state-of-the-practice in trip generation research.
2) Identify land use and transportation variables that influence vehicle trip generation rates.
3) List unique characteristics of trip generation of mixed use developments.

Jerry Walters, Principal, MITE, Fehr & Peers, Inc. Walnut Creek, CA, USA; Brian Bochner, Senior Research Engineer, HITE, Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, TX, USA; G.B. Arrington, Principal Practice Leader, PB PlaceMaking, Portland, OR, USA

Jerry is a principal and Chief Technical Officer of Fehr & Peers, a transportation consultancy with offices throughout the western US. He is an ITE member and registered Traffic Engineer with over thirty years experience in transportation planning and engineering, and has completed several hundred travel forecasting and traffic impact studies. Jerry has also participated on committees responsible for defining best practices for integrated land use, transportation and climate change methods for the California Transportation Commission, Air Resources Board, Departments of Housing and Community Development and Transportation and the American Public Transit Association. He has also developed project evaluation methods and metrics for the US EPA and is a co-author of the 2008 book Growing Cooler – the Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change published by the Urban Land Institute. Jerry is project manager for the on-going US EPA study Mixed-use Development and Vehicle Trips: Improving the Standard Estimation Methodology.

Brian brings to this project over 35 years of experience developing and using site trip generation procedures and estimates. He has served on ITE’s Trip Generation Committee since the fourth edition and was a member of the committee that wrote the Trip Generation Handbook and developed the current method used to estimate internal trip capture as well as several other recommended practices. Mr. Bochner is serving as Principal Investigator for NCHRP project 8-51, Improving Estimation of Internal Trip Capture, and a Texas Department of Transportation project to develop a Texas Mixed-Use Development Internal Trip Estimator incorporating additional data. Mr. Bochner also worked on the original edition of ULI’s Shared Parking. He has been principal investigator for studies conducted to establish local trip generation rates and equations for both the Louisville and Indianapolis areas as well as a study to verify ITE rates for local use in Santa Monica. He has performed numerous traffic impact and site access studies for single and mixed-use developments ranging from 20 dwelling units to 20,000,000 square feet in size, working for both developers and attorneys on the applicant side and cities and MPOs on the public side.

GB is the Principal Practice Leader for PB PlaceMaking. He is responsible for providing strategic direction and leading PB’s global transit-oriented development (TOD) practice. He is internationally recognized as a leader in TOD and for his skills in linking transit and land use to create livable communities of lasting value.
Mr. Arrington specializes in policy, research, planning and design services that assist public and private sector clients in solving politically and technically complex land use and transportation challenges. His work has taken him across the United States, to China, Australia, New Zealand, Dubai and the Caribbean. During his career he has directed the preparation of over 125 TOD plans.
Mr. Arrington’s career has been defined by a commitment to continuous innovation to reinvent how cities grow while enhancing their quality of life. Before joining PB, he charted a new, award-winning direction for Portland Oregon’s transit agency. His innovative planning and community involvement strategies changed the face of transit and land use in the Portland region and received awards from the White House and the Federal Transit Administration.