Table 3: Comparison of Existing and Future College Population Category
Existing Population
Future Population
% Increase
Undergraduate
900
1,500
67%
Faculty/Staff
240
433
80%
Graduate/Continuing Studies
1,400 *
1,400
0%
* 1,400 is the headcount, or number of individual students registered, not the number of students that come to campus on a given day. Many graduate/continuing studies students take only one class per week.
Methodology for Projecting Future College Traffic To project the future college peak hour traffic volume, it is assumed that the CHC travel patterns will remain the same as today. Therefore, the future college traffic was increased in proportion to the college Master Plan population increase. The school traffic during the morning commuter peak hour is a combination of faculty, staff, and undergraduate students. Faculty and staff will have a higher percentage population increase than students, but the faculty/staff rate was applied to all morning traffic in order to be conservative. The future morning entering and exiting peak hour traffic volumes were increased by 80% over the existing counts. During the evening peak hour, the entering traffic is mainly from graduate or Continuing Studies students, whose population will remain constant. The evening peak hour school exiting traffic is mainly from faculty and staff getting off work, as well as some day students. The future evening entering peak hour traffic was kept at the same level as existing, but the exiting peak hour traffic was increased by 80%. This methodology is summarized in the following Table 4. Table 4: CHC Trip Increase over Existing with Completion of Master Plan Development Entering
Exiting
AM Peak Hour
80%
80%
PM Peak Hour
0%
80%
Updated Traffic Impact Analysis of Chestnut Hill College Master Plan Expansion
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