Transportation Master Plan

This project identified the current conditions of the City of New Plymouth streets and transportation facilities, and future transportation needs and requirements.  The study included developing an inventory of existing facilities and a Geographical Information System (GIS) based street surface rating map, including a database to prioritize improvements.  The road inventory survey included a Global Positioning System (GPS) inventory of current road conditions, a GIS database of the City streets, evaluation of City streets surface condition, and a condition rating for each street.  From this, the City can provide strong justification and support of the selected improvements for the community understanding and funding applications.  The City Public Works department will be able to track needed improvements and the associated costs using the GIS database.

Additionally, information for annual updates to the roadwork plans will be readily available from the GIS database to match potential funding sources with required and desired improvements.  The scope of study also included studying historical population census data, evaluating the existing transportation system, determining future transportation needs, forecasting traffic on major City streets and providing recommendations for congestion mitigation.  It also identified the future investment projects to be included in the 5 year and 20 year CIP.  The report discusses current road conditions, future transportation system considerations based on the projected traffic volumes, future streets connectivity, bicycle and pedestrian pathway planning, public transportation developments and the future transportation projects for the next 5 and 20 years.  Holladay Engineering has assisted fifteen agencies with completing transportation plans.

All of these plans started by meeting with the appropriate public agencies as well as the general public to determine the specific needs of the each individual community.  Each transportation plan is then “customized”, or modified, to address the local topics of highest priority and needs of the individual local units of government.

Services Provided by HECO Engineers:

• Condition Assessment
• Master Planning