Traffic impact assessment review

Project Name
Ras Al Hamra Development Project
Sub-project: Design of the Ras Al Hamra area phase I Design Stage Traffic impact assesment

Client Principal Consultant Road Safety Audit Team

PDO UIR

KEO International Sasa Kocic, Team Leader Daniel Thuermer, Team Memeber

The traffic assessment results are provided through the three documents provided by KEO:

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1. Traffic study DRAFT report, dated: 04.10.2010 2. Junction Configuration Study DRAFT report, dated: 10.07.2011 3. Ras Al Hamra School traffic study technical note, dated January 2012 The main issues identified in this review are presented in the following table: Description Reference Initial traffic studies for the area are only draft reports and KEO did not provide the final study reports Traffic study report on page 2, point 2.3 KEO response for the Road Safety Audit Site Topography describes the terrain as comments on the design of Ras Al Hamra steep and rocky while KEO has used the Street as presented in the following e-mail: design elements for the level/rolling terrain (From: Nebojsa Pavlovic [mailto:Nebojsa.Pavlovic@keoic.com] for the Ras Al Hamra Street
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2012 4:19 PM To: Condon, Kerry UIR18 Cc: Duggan,Alan Paul UIR31X; Vaughan, Stephen UIR3; Laurie Hensman; Narasimha Venkata; Balushi, Yousef UIR31; Qassabi, Nasser UIR33; Hanna, Michael UIR1 Subject: 07-9593-INF4: Road Safety Audit Report for detail design of Ras Al hamra Street)

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Traffic study report on page 3, point 3.2 Road network stipulates that while existing cross-sections shall be maintained for all other roads, Ras Al Hamra Street is proposed to be upgraded to three lanes carriageway. This third lane will act as a turning lane at junctions if required and otherwise shall remain as a striped median. And the final design of the Ras Al Hamra Street is a single carriageway road without the striped median Traffic study report on page 4, point 4.1 Assessment year does not provide the details of which assessment year will be used

RAH street falls into rolling terrain and it can be classified as distributor road as per its function, speed and number of accesses. It falls into D3 (distributor urban flat/rolling) and can serve up to 800 pcu / h in one-way which is enough for our traffic volumes. Hence 2 lane cross section is adequate Same referenced e-mail stipulates that: RAH street is a typical 2 lane single carriageway road. Reasonable overtaking opportunity is required on straight stretches where there is visibility and also during vehicle breakdown cases. Since it is a low speed road it may not be a problem for pedestrian to cross 7.3m road length. Therefore we feel there is no any particular reason to change the road cross section.

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Table 4.1 in the Traffic study report differs in numbers from the table 3.2 in the Junction configuration study although the same methodology and the same initial traffic counts were used, and the new assessment shows increase in the numbers of the vehicles that will be using the road network, while land use summary remains the same Ras Al Hamra School traffic study technical note provides the information that the assessment year used is 2024, while the previous Junction Configuration Study provides the information that the assessment year based on which the calculations were done is 2016 The Ras Al Hamra School traffic study technical note page 18 (Figure 8: Future year (2024) with school development traffic volumes again shows the significant increase in the numbers of the vehicles using the road network, but does not provide the analysis for the increased traffic conditions. RSST has done the analysis based on the inputs using the aaSIDRA software (same as KEO used) for the Ras Al Hamra and Fahud Street roundabout and the overall LOS F was calculated as a result, which is not acceptable

Junction Configuration Study page 7, point 4. Traffic Assessment Ras Al Hamra School traffic study technical note page 2, point 2.3 Analysis year

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The Ras Al Hamra School traffic study technical note page 18 (Figure 8: Future year (2024) with school development traffic volumes again shows the significant increase in the numbers of the vehicles using the road network, but does not provide the analysis for the increased traffic conditions. RSST has done the analysis based on the inputs using the aaSIDRA software (same as KEO used) for the Ras Al Hamra and Kauther street junction and the LOS F was calculated as a result on one of the approaches, which is not acceptable

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The Ras Al Hamra School traffic study technical note page 18 (Figure 8: Future year (2024) with school development traffic volumes again shows the significant increase in the numbers of the vehicles using the road network, but does not provide the analysis for the increased traffic conditions. RSST has done the analysis based on the inputs using the aaSIDRA software (same as KEO used) for the Ras Al Hamra and Al Fahal street roundabout and the LOS F was calculated as a result for a whole roundabout, which is not acceptable

10. The Ras Al Hamra School traffic study Junction of Ras Al Hamra street with Kauther technical note page 18 (Figure 8: Future Street (the traffic flow coming from the Ras Al year (2024) with school development traffic Hamra-Fahud Street roundabout) volumes shows that the number of vehicles using one lane can reach 1192 vehicles per hour per lane

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