• Ite Parking Generation Study

In the last decade, Jordan has exhibited an abnormal population growth. Jordan’s population increased from about 5 million people in 2005 to 9.5 million people in 2015. Part of this increase is attributed to Syrian and Iraqi refugees. Thus, large shopping centers were constructed to provide the needed economic services.

Ite Parking Generation Study

These centers generated considerable trips and parking demands, and ultimately created extensive pressure on the surrounding street network and contributed to traffic congestion, accidents, and pollution. To overcome this problem, traffic engineers and urban planners must be able to estimate the generated trips and parking demands in order to assess the impact of these developments on the nearby existing street network. Such assessment is necessary to aid decision makers to achieve sustainable developments. Traffic engineers and transportation planners around the world have the awesome responsibility of predicting how much traffic a development will generate many years in the future—usually before it is anything more than an architect’s concept plan. For more than 40 years, ITE has helped us with this daunting task by providing an instrumental, but well-worn reference: Trip Generation. This publication has recently made a giant leap forward and will give ITE members many new ways to complete the first step of the four-step modeling process: trip generation, the foundation on which all traffic impact studies are built.