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City of Charlottesville On-call Services

EPR’s staff has been providing transportation engineering and planning services to the City of Charlottesville through an on-call contract arrangement for nearly a decade. With the University of Virginia situated within the City limits, the 20,000+ on-campus students and overall citizenry enjoy a highly walkable multimodal community setting. EPR has been assisting the City with planning and engineering efforts that support the overall multimodal transportation framework within this highly livable and historic City. Projects have included an array of studies and designs ranging from parking supply and management, traffic calming, circulation and intersection operations, citywide signal retiming, and neighborhood traffic calming planning.

Examples of Projects completed for the City include:

• Corridor signal retiming for closed loop signal coordination
• Barracks / Emmet Street Intersection Study
• West Main at Ridge Street Intersection Study
• Traffic data collection for three corridors for signal retiming
• Assistance with the transportation element of the comprehensive plan
• Study of Preston Avenue relative to a road diet
• Neighborhood Traffic calming studies for various locations
• Presentation to City Council regarding speed limit determination practices
• Conduct of various traffic impact studies (for the private sector)
• Study of Cherry Avenue at Ridge Street and Upper Ridge at Ridge Street
• Review of Biscuit Run Traffic Impact Study, which included impacts to Ridge Street
• Fifeville Traffic Calming and Circulation Analysis
• Review of various UVa development proposals
• Study of right turn on red restriction at Monticello and Ridge Street
• Citywide signal inventory (90% complete)
• Redesign of 5^th Street at West Main / Water Street intersection
• Belmont neighborhood pedestrian and sidewalk improvements design (ongoing)
• All-way STOP control studies at various intersection around the City
• Belmont Bridge project traffic study (ongoing)
• Modeling for Whole Foods development
• Study and signal design for JPA/Emmet Street (funded by developer)
• Miscellaneous CADD support efforts
• North Berkshire , base flood elevations, FF elevations for Habitat for Humanity House
• Construction plans for the pedestrian safety improvements at Monticello Avenue and Rialto Road intersection
• E. Market Street Improvement Plan Conceptual Design
• Signal Documentation and Inventory for 71 traffic signals located throughout the City
• Traffic Calming design and layout for the Belmont neighborhood, Fifeville neighborhood, Hampton and Rives intersection, Monticello and 6^th intersection, and Preston and Washington Park.
• Turn lane extensions design for Hydraulic Road and Route 250 Bypass, and N. Emmet at Arlington
• Drainage design projects for Brandywine, Cherry and Highland, Elm Street, Farish Street, Kenwood, Meadowbrook, Mulberry Ave, and North Berkshire.