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860 Charter Street Rocketship School Shuttle A 7.A. - Page 219 <br /> Table 1 <br /> Project Trip Generation Estimates with Shuttle Program <br /> AM Peak Hour PM Peak Hour 2 <br /> Daily Daily <br /> Land Use Size Ra te Trips Rate In Out Total Ra te I n Out . . <br /> Proposed Use <br /> Elementary School 480 Students <br /> Trips by Staff and Visitors 0.05 25 0 25 0.05 0 25 25 <br /> Trips by Non-Working Parents 0.36 89 84 173 0.19 41 50 91 <br /> Trips by Working Parents 0.55 136 128 264 0.28 61 73 134 <br /> Reduction for students using Shuttle (50) (50) (100) (50) (50) (100) <br /> Total Trips by Parents 175 162 337 52 73 125 <br /> Shuttle Trips 8 8 16 8 8 16 <br /> Gross Trips 3 2.75 1,320 208 170 378 60 106 166 <br /> Existing Use <br /> Classic Car Sales 4 (23,000) s.f. 1.61 (37) 0.00 0 0 0 0.13 (1) (2) (3) <br /> Net New Trips 1,283 208 170 378 59 104 163 <br /> Notes: <br /> Peak hour trip rates(per student)based on Hexagon Transportation Consultants,Inc.surveys conducted in 2012 through 2014 at five Rocketship elementary <br /> schools in San Jose. <br /> 2 PM peak hour trip generation reflects 4 PM-5 PM,which is when peak project traffic and peak background traffic overlap. <br /> 3 Daily trip rate w as derived by multiplying the AM peak hour rate by the ratio of daily trip rate to the AM trip rate(1.29/.45)available in the Institute of Transportation <br /> Engineers(ITE)Trip Generation Manual,9th Edition for Elementary School(IFIFE Land Use#520). <br /> 4 <br /> Peak hour trips from drivew ay counts conducted on Tuesday,November 4,2014.Daily trip rate w as derived by multiplying the PM peak hour rate by the ratio of <br /> daily trip rate to the PM trip rate(32.3/2.62)available in the Institute of Transportation Engineers(IFIFE)Trip Generation Manual,9th Edition for Automobile Sales(FIFE <br /> Land Use#841). <br /> Traffic Operations with the Shuttle <br /> In addition to reducing the vehicle trips generated by the school, the proposed student shuttle <br /> program would provide benefits related to both intersection delay and on-site queuing as described <br /> below. <br /> On-Site Queuing <br /> As reported in the project TIA, it is estimated that on-site drop-off queues in the morning would <br /> reach a maximum of 450 feet (18 vehicles) and on-site pick-up queues in the afternoon would <br /> extend up to 400 feet (16 vehicles) without the student shuttle. The queue length is determined <br /> based on the number of parent vehicle trips since school employees arrive and depart before and <br /> after the peak student drop-off and pick-up periods. The proposed student shuttle program would <br /> reduce the parent vehicle trips by 19 percent and 37 percent during the AM and PM peak hour, <br /> respectively. Thus, the student shuttles are expected to reduce the maximum queue during the <br /> peak drop-off period from 18 to 15 vehicles (375 feet). Similarly, the shuttles would reduce the <br /> maximum queue during the peak pick-up period from 16 vehicles to 10 vehicles (250 feet). <br /> Including the loading zone, the proposed project would provide 460 feet of queue space on site. As <br /> stated in the project TIA, drop-off and pick-up queues are expected to be contained within the <br /> project site even without the proposed shuttles. The proposed shuttles would reduce the on-site <br /> queues to further ensure that queues do not extend on to Charter Street. In addition, the school <br /> has proposed Travel Demand Management (TDM) measures such as bicycle parking and financial <br /> incentives for carpools that would further reduce the parent vehicle trips and on-site queue length. <br /> H EXA60N Page 12 <br />