ITE's recommended practice on how to apply trip generation data.

The Trip generation handbook was approved in November 2000 as a Recommended practice of the Institute of Transportation Engineers. It supersedes the Proposed recommended practice, RP-028, dated October 1998. Comments on the October 1998 document have been incorporated into this document. The Recommended practice provides guidelines for application and interpretation of trip generation data. Topics covered in the Handbook include guidelines for estimating site trip generation, collecting local trip generation data, developing local trip generation rates, estimating pass-by trips and estimating trip generation for multiuse land developments. Informational pieces also are provided on truck trip generation, the effects of travel demand management (TDM) and transit on trip generation and a summary of literature on multiuse developments.

"Trip Generation, 8th Edition: An ITE Informational Report includes updated introductory and instructional material (User's Guide), as well as two data volumes with revised land use descriptions, trip generation rates, equations and data plots. Data from more than 550 sites have been added to the eighth edition, bringing the number of data points contained in the database to more than 4,800. In addition, 12 new land use classifications are included, for a total of 162 land uses. Trip Generation has undergone many other important updates, which are outlined in detail in Chapter 2 of the User's Guide. Several land uses were expanded significantly with the addition of new data. These include: High-Cube Warehouse (152); Free-Standing Discount Superstore (813); Home Improvement Superstore (862); Discount Home Furnishing Superstore (869); and Drive-in Bank (912). This report is a must have for transportation professionals conducting site impact studies, determining on-site circulation patterns, performing access management studies, determining traffic signal timing and conducting environmental assessments."--Publisher.