Institutions
Traffic and transportation issues associated with public and private primary and secondary schools usually involve pick-up/drop-off operations, community concerns regarding these operations, site circulation, and pedestrian safety. Gorove/Slade has extensive experience identifying the primary traffic issues, determining alternative solutions to address these issues, and providing a sound transportation management plan to implement the recommended solutions. We communicate effectively at community meetings, work sessions, and hearings by presenting the benefits, impacts, and mitigation measures associated with a project.
In 2010, Gorove/Slade was commissioned by the Institute of Transportation Engineers to prepare a web-based professional education module entitled: “School Site Selection, Planning and Impacts” as part of the Federal Safe Routes to School Program.
Sample primary and secondary school projects
The traffic generated by hospitals, medical centers, and related institutions includes a broad range of demands that need to be organized to meet the unique needs of the different population groups using and visiting these facilities. Priority must be given to access requirements for emergency and non-emergency patients and the doctors and care-givers that treat them. The needs of critical persons must be balanced and coordinated with the access of support staff, patient visitors, and service providers to the hospital.
The functional aspects of these facilities include parking access, wayfinding, valet operations, emergency access, and service access. Gorove/Slade has helped medical center clients manage this complex set of diverse access requirements. The firm’s approach often involves the development of a detailed database of all traffic - vehicular, pedestrian, and other - that enters and leaves the hospital property, stratified by time of day, by duration of stay, by travel mode, and by trip purpose. Gorove/Slade has worked with its clients' architects to organize hospitals’ internal functions and access corridors, routes, and scheduling to achieve operational and economic efficiencies while addressing traffic congestion problems on adjacent public streets and reconciling parking system shortcomings. The firm also understands the unique nature in which medical facilities must interface with the surrounding community and the transportation network that they usually share.
Museums, Monuments and Visitor Centers
The Washington D.C. metropolitan area is home to some of the world's largest and most visited museums, an assortment of neighborhood boutique museums, and all types in between. The wide range of museum sizes, locations and diverse visitor populations creates a challenge in the transportation planning process. Gorove/Slade's experience with these variables and their effects provides them the depth and breadth of knowledge necessary in museum planning. We have been involved in many aspects of museum planning for both urban and suburban museums including mode choice analysis, parking demand studies, loading dock design, site design, and neighborhood impact analysis.
Sample museum, monument and visitor center projects
Colleges and universities are complex activity centers with significant conflicting mobility demands generated by students, faculty, staff and visitors. The development of comprehensive traffic and parking plans for these institutions requires the consideration of bicycle, pedestrian, and transit modes as well as the application of travel demand management strategies over and above the traditional movement and parking of automobiles. Gorove/Slade assists colleges and universities with their transportation and parking problem-solving assignments.
Gorove/Slade recognizes that transportation master plans for colleges and universities present a unique challenge. Campuses often represent a community within or adjacent to another community. The town and gown transportation interface is critical to vitality of the campus and its neighboring activities. Gorove/Slade weighs and evaluates the shared infrastructure and the balancing of mutual transportation demands against the traffic and parking uses of unique business and residential interests.
