Does Your Local Shopping Center Need Traffic Control Devices?

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1 Does Your Local Shopping Center Need Traffic Control Devices? 2016 Western District Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, MN Experts Connecting Communities

2 Site Roadways Open to Public Travel (SROPT) History of the Federal Rule Making Recent National Committee Work How might you apply this in your work The Shopping Center Example

3 Stop Sign/Yield/Crosswalk

4 Green Stop Sign

5 Federal Rule Making 23 CFR (a) Effective January 16, 2007 The MUTCD approved by the Federal Highway Administrator is the national on standard any street, for all traffic highway, control devices or installed bicycle on trail any street, highway, or bicycle trail open travel in accordance with 23 U.S.C. 109(d) and 402(a). open For to the public purpose travel of MUTCD applicability, open to public travel includes toll roads and roads within shopping centers, parking lot areas, airports, sports arenas, and other similar business and/or recreation facilities that are privately owned but where Military bases and other gated properties where the public is allowed to travel without access restrictions. Military access bases and is restricted other gated properties and private where highway-rail access is restricted gradeand crossings private highway-rail are not grade included crossings this are not definition included in this definition

6 Federal Rule Making 23 CFR (a) Effective December 16, 2009 The MUTCD approved by the Federal Highway Administrator is the national standard for all traffic control devices installed on any street, highway, or bicycle trail open to public travel in accordance with 23 U.S.C. 109(d) and 402(a). For the purpose of MUTCD applicability, open to public travel includes toll roads and roads within shopping centers, airports, sports arenas, and other similar business and/or recreation properties facilities where that are access privately is restricted owned but where at all the times public are is allowed to travel without access restrictions. Except for gated toll not included in this definition. Parking areas, driving roads, roads within private gated properties where access is restricted aisles within at all times parking are not areas, included and in private this definition. highway-rail Parking areas, grade driving crossings aisles within are parking also not areas, included and private in this highwayrail grade crossings are also not included in this definition. Except for gated toll roads, roads within private gated definition. Effective 2012 All states adopt

7 Differences from Public Roadways Lack of right-of-way defining limits of the highway Low-speed travel First a name: SITE ROADWAYS OPEN TO PUBLIC TRAVEL No posted or statutory speed limit High volumes of pedestrians No applicable law enforcement for failure to comply with traffic control devices Individual property rights

8 Guiding Principles Uniformity and Consistency of Traffic Control Devices Safety Convenience Efficiency Lack of recognition Distractions Confusion Public Funding Enforcement Liability Standard Of Care Private Approvals Permitting Liability

9 Simplifying Premises If it looks and quacks like a duck, it s a duck Let s not and say we did If you build it, the MUTCD will come

10 Site Roadways Open to Public Travel

11 National Committee Work Six Years of Outreach and Technical Committee Collaboration Allowed sign sizes to be reduced 6 inches under lower speed conditions 85 th Percentile Circulation Roadway Mean Standard Deviation 85 th Percentile Parking Aisle Mean Standard Deviation Weekday Discount Wholesale Shopping Center Supermarket Weekend Discount Wholesale Shopping Center Supermarket

12 The Good the Bad and the Ugly Allowing multi-way stop under engineering judgement Allowing stop pavement messages to be used with or without a stop sign and permitting reduced size pavement words/arrows for less than 25 mph SROPT Allowing one-way signs to be omitted where pavement arrows are used related to driving aisles. Provides reduced advanced placement distances for warning signs at 20 mph or less (115 feet).

13 The Good the Bad and the Ugly Allows for modification of guide signs based upon engineering judgement considering speed, traffic characteristics and other site specific consideration How to mark chain or cables used to restrict access (Type 1 marker or reflective sign) Reducing the minimum taper length to less than 100 feet for speeds less than 25 mph

14 Shopping Centers Building Frontage Roads BFR where traffic control devices may not be needed BFR where traffic control devices may be needed

15 Shopping Center

16 Questions Ransford S. McCourt, PE, PTOE Dr. Jonathan Upchurch, PE, PTOE