Table of content executive summary 1 terminology 6 abbreviations 7 1 introduction 9 1.1 the concept of traffic impact assessment 9 1.2 the need 9 1.3 research question 10 1.4 objective 10 1.5 scope: 10 1.6 limitation 10 1.7 proposed methodology 11 1.8 conceptual framework 13 2 literature study 15 2.1 theory and concept 15 2.1.1 traffic engineering 15 2.1.2 traffic congestion 15 2.1.3 road capacity 16 2.1.4 capacity 16 2.1.5 design service volumes 16 2.1.6 level of service 17 2.1.7 commercial facility 18 2.1.8 shopping mall 19 2.1.9 commercial facility and traffic 19 2.1.10 traffic impact assessment 19 2.2 traffic impact assessment 20 2.2.1 why tia is important? 20 2.2.2 requirement for traffic studies 20 2.2.3 requirement of tia: 21 2.3 tia process- case study 21 2.3.1 uk 21 2.3.2 usa 23 2.3.3 singapore 28 2.3.4 comparative study 31 2.4 limitation of traffic impact studies 33 3 data collection and analysis 35 3.1 methodology for data collection 35 3.2 growth of commercial facilities 35 3.3 significance of the study area 36 3.4 methodology adopted for survey 37 3.4.1 selection of commercial facility: 37 3.4.2 sampling 38 3.4.3 profile of commercial facility 38 3.5 permissions required for the approval of development from the authority in india: 39 3.6 types of impact and impacted area by the development 40 3.6.1 parking condition and access location 40 3.6.2 traffic condition 44 3.6.3 mode choice 48 3.7 total demand generated 52 3.7.1 trip generation 52 3.7.2 average trip generation rate 53 4 proposed guideline for undertaking tia 57 4.1 traffic impact assessment guidelines- for commercial facility 57 4.1.1 introduction 57 4.1.2 traffic impact assessment study warrants 58 4.1.3 tia requirement 58 5 references 64 6 annexure 66 6.1 entry- exit survey form 66 6.2 vehicular count survey form 67 6.3 o-d survey form: 69