Transportation Study Professional Services

The vendor is required to provide that transportation study is to evaluate the capacity and connectivity of both existing and planned transportation networks and compare them to projected travel demand.
1. project management and meetings
•    Attend meetings with city staff, including a project kick-off meeting to establish the project goals and timelines, and progress meetings to discuss project activities and meet to discuss specific technical aspects of the analysis and present the analysis results
•    Prepare and distribute meeting agenda and summary for the meetings
•    Coordinate project work efforts with the city’s project manager
•    Prepare invoices and monthly progress reports
2. literature review
•    Summarize relevant plans and previous studies of the area
•    analyze trends in population growth, demographic shifts, development patterns, and transportation investment, focusing on their relationship to changes in vehicle ownership, usage, and vehicle miles traveled (VMT) 
•    Assess land use characteristics such as density, land use mix, connectivity, and accessibility, and their influence on travel behavior 
•    Investigate the impact of land use on different types of travel, with a particular emphasis on work-related versus nonwork-related travel 
•    Review contemporary evidence surrounding the relationship between higher density development and traffic congestion 
•    Overview of reverse lane usage practices in comparable cities nationwide 
•    Review of complete street policy and road safety action plan
3. Data collection
•    Traffic counts, including motor vehicles, bicyclists, pedestrians, and transit vehicles
•    Traffic counts should break out vehicle utilization by lane
•    Turning movement counts to be conducted at major arterial signalized intersections during peak and off-peak hours within the study area (24-hour count) including the capture of left turn lane queuing
•    Lane utilization during reverse lane operations
•    Speed study during peak and off-peak hours on weekdays and weekends (24-hour count)
•    Safety analysis
•    Analyze crash data and identify high-risk locations
•    Roadway/lane/traffic signal capacity analysis
o    Determine roadway capacity needs for various roadway segments within the study area based on development patterns and arterial roadways
•    Peak hour and daily traffic analysis
•    Traffic forecasting
•    Collect multi-modal transportation data
o    Light-rail ridership
o    Bus ridership
o    Bicycle ridership
o    Micro mobility ridership
•    Collect mid-block bus stop utilization and locations of nearest crosswalks
•    Establish land use assumptions
•    Obtain approved rezoning cases from the planning and development department within the study area from 2020 to present
•    Obtain development plans that received preliminary approval from the planning and development department between 2022 to present 
•    Obtain underlying land use assumption data within the study area from the planning and development department growth and infrastructure section
4. Corridor analysis
•    Obtain Maricopa association of governments travel demand model information. the travel demand sub-area o-d matrices will be calibrated to traffic count information to derive synthetic o-d matrices for the project area. synthetic matrices will be evaluated for the existing conditions to perform future scenario analysis. 
•    Conduct a thorough examination of land use characteristics in the study areas, including density, sociodemographic factors, jobs-housing balance, and the overall land use mix 
•    Assess the transportation (street/highway) network’s characteristics, capacity, and traffic conditions 
•    Analyze the traffic composition, specifically the proportion of traffic volume on selected links originating or destined for the study area compared to “through” traffic 
•    Evaluate the transit network, including its coverage, service levels, and usage patterns
•    Measure resident travel within the study area by travel purpose, focusing on internal capture (retention) 
•    Examine average trip lengths across study areas in relation to various development characteristics 
•    Assess walkability and the extent of non-motorized travel within the corridors
•    Prepare a performance analysis of the main corridors as a result of major closures or crashes on interstate 17, interstate 10, or state route 51 
•    Develop recommended safety enhancements at identified high-risk locations 
•    Assess the existing condition for 7th street and 7th avenue. develop at least five options for traffic operations, including one option for the reverse lanes to remain in place and one option for removal of the reverse lanes completely. 
•    This analysis shall include:
o    Business impacts of the reverse lanes, including access challenges to businesses along 7th street and 7th avenue
o    Impacts to traffic, safety, and economic development
o    Use of mesoscopic modeling to evaluate impacts
o    Both vehicle delay and person delay should be calculated for each alternative
o    Identify impacts of neighborhood cut-through traffic
o    Cost analysis of alternatives
5. Public outreach
•    The consultant will be responsible for conducting a minimum of two public meetings, attending meetings with city staff with key stakeholders in the study area, and development of a project website information. 
•    The first public meeting will gather specific information about the study of the reverse lanes on 7th street and 7th avenue. 
•    The second public meeting will present the findings of the corridor analysis to the public.

- Pre-Submittal Meeting (Non-Mandatory) Date: August 11, 2025
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: August 15, 2025