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INFRASTRUCTURE
Planners and engineers work together to create a master plan for the community and use it as the basis for all decision making. In addition to showing how land should be used, the master plan describes how services will be provided, such as roads, water, sewage, and transportation systems. These services are called the community's infrastructure. Engineers must plan where to put roads, what type of vehicles they should be designed to carry, how much traffic they must handle, and how to control vehicles to maintain smooth traffic flow. These decisions will be based primarily upon the future land uses called for in the master plan when the community is "built-out." Land uses generate different amounts of traffic or "vehicle trips" and at different times of the day or "peak". Estimates or predictions of future traffic volumes are made based on these land use assumptions. Road system designs may also be influenced by regional traffic patterns. Major streets usually continue through surrounding cities and will be affected by their land use master plans. |
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ACTIVITY: CREATE A STREET SYSTEM
Use the information collected on the Vehicular Movement and Infrastructure surveys to complete this activity. Where should access points be located? Why?
Are any new streets needed? Why?
What improvements are needed and where? Use Infrastructure Survey data.
Draw your conclusions on a base map and label it: "INFRASTRUCTURE". |
