APPENDIX 1

ITE TRIP GENERATION RATES BY MAJOR LAND USE CATEGORIES

LAND USE TYPE	AVERAGE WEEKDAY TRIP GENERATION RATES
Residential		Trips Per Indicated Measure: Dwelling Unit
Single-Family Detached		10.0
Condominium/Townhouse		6.6
Low-rise Apartment		4.0
High-rise Apartment		5.2
Mobile Home		4.8
Retirement Community		3.3
Recreation Home (owner)		3.2
Office Building	Trips Per Indicated Measure:
	Employee	1,000 Gross Sq. Ft. of Building Area
General Office, Under 100,000 gross sq. ft.	3.7	17.7
General Office, 100,000-199,999 gross sq. ft.	3.8	14.3
General Office, over 200,000 gross sq. ft.	2.9	10.9
Medical Office Building	NA	54.6
Office Park	3.3	20.7
Research Center	2.4	5.3
Industrial	Trips Per Indicated Measure:
	Employee	1,000 Gross Sq. Ft. of Building Area
Light Industrial	3.2	5.5
Heavy Industrial	2.1	1.5
Industrial Park	3.6	7.0
Manufacturing	2.1	3.9
Warehousing	3.9	4.9
Mini Warehousing	NA	2.8
Lodging	Trips Per Indicated Measure:
	Employee	Room
Hotel	11.3	10.5
Motel	12.8	10.1
Retail	Trips Per Indicated Measure:
	Employee	1000 Gross Sq. Ft. of leasable area
Specialty Retail	NA	40.1
Discount Store	NA	70.1
Shopping Center	NA
Under 50,000 sq. ft. leasable area	NA	117.9
50,000-99,999 sq. ft. leasable area	NA	82.0
Retail	Trips Per Indicated Measure:
	Employee	1000 Gross Sq. Ft. of leasable area
100,000-199,999 sq. ft. leasable area	NA	66.7
200,000-299,999 sq. ft. leasable area	NA	50.6
300,000-399,999 sq. ft. leasable area	NA	41.9
400,000-499,999 sq. ft. leasable area	NA	39.7
500,000-999,999 sq. ft. leasable area	NA	37.2
1,000,000-1,249,999 sq. ft. leasable area	NA	37.1
Over 1,250,000 sq. ft. leasable area	NA	34.1
Institutional	Trips Per Indicated Measure:
	Employee	Student
Elementary School	13.1	1.0
High School	16.3	1.4
Junior/Community College	NA	1.6
University**	NA	2.4
Library**	51.0	41.8 (per 1,000 gross sq.ft.)

Notes:

* For definitions, see below

** More detailed data needed to develop satisfactory trip generation rates.

NA Information not available from ITE

ITE DEFINITIONS OF LAND USES

Single-Family Detached = A single-family detached home on an individual lot.

Low-Rise Apartment = Apartments in buildings that are only one or two levels (floor)

High-Rise Apartment = Apartments in buildings three or more levels high.

Condominium/Townhouse = Single-family ownership units that have at least one other single-family owned unit within the same building structure. Both condominiums and townhouses are included in this category.

Mobile Home = Trailers shipped, sited, and installed on a permanent foundation.

Retirement Community = Residential units similar to apartments or condominiums usually located in self-contained villages.

Recreational Homes = Homes usually contained in a resort together with local services and complete recreation facilities.

General Office Building. Houses one or more tenants and is the location where the affairs of a business, commercial, or industrial organization, professional person, or firm are conducted.

Medical Office Building. A facility that provides diagnoses and outpatient care on a routine basis but which is unable to provide prolonged in-house medical/surgical care.

Office Park. Subdivisions or planned unit developments containing general office buildings and support services such as banks, savings and loan institutions, restaurants, and service stations arranged in a park or campus-like atmosphere.

Research Center. Facilities or groups of facilities devoted nearly exclusively to research and development activities.

Light Industrial. Usually employ less than 500 persons with an emphasis on other than manufacturing.

Heavy Industrial. Encompasses the manufacturing of large items.

Industrial Park. Areas containing a number of industrial or related facilities. They are characterized by a mix of manufacturing, service, and warehouse facilities with a wide variation in the proportion of each type of use from on location to another.

Manufacturing. Places where the primary activity is the conversion of raw materials or parts into finished products.

Warehousing. Facilities that are all or largely devoted to storage of materials.

Mini-Warehouse. A building in which a storage unit or vault is rented for the storage of goods.

Hotel. A place of lodging providing sleeping accommodations, restaurants, cocktail lounges, meeting and banquet rooms or convention facilities, and other retail and service shops.

Motel. A place of lodging offering only sleeping accommodations and possibly a restaurant.

Specialty Retail Center. Small shopping centers which contain shops specializing in quality apparel or hard goods.

Discount Stores. Freestanding stores with off-street parking.

Elementary School. School serving students between kindergarten and high school levels.

High School. School serving students between the elementary and junior college or university levels.

Junior/Community College. Includes all two-and four-year educational institutions that call themselves a junior college, community college, or college.

University. Includes institutions grouped solely on the basis of their being called universities.

Library. Includes those at universities and other public and private facilities.

Source: Institute of Transportation Engineers, Trip Generation (Washington, D.C.: ITE) fourth edition. The ITE trip generation data should be used as a general guideline. Trip generation rates from other sources may be used if the applicant demonstrates that these sources better reflect local conditions.