How a Transportation Engineer Plans for Crowded Trailhead Arrival Patterns
A transportation engineer studies more than how many cars show up at a trailhead. The real problem is timing. A lot with 60 spaces can look fine on paper and still overflow by 7 a.m. on a Saturday. Near Pikes Peak, hikers, cyclists, anglers and sightseers all arrive on their own clocks. When you plan […]
How a Traffic Study Can Influence Commercial Site Layouts
A traffic study can move your entrance thirty feet before a single stake goes in the ground. That’s not a small detail. It changes parking counts, drive lanes, and sometimes the whole shape of a site plan. For developers working in Colorado Springs, CO, treating a traffic study as a late-stage formality is one of […]