Parking Consulting
Once UPMC Children’s Hospital moved to Lawrenceville, the area experienced significant growth and development. Trans Associates assisted the Lawrenceville Corporation in studies to improve traffic flow and safety condition for pedestrians, motorists and bicyclists. The study and subsequent update focused on existing conditions centralized around the Butler Street corridor. The goal was to identify both current parking utilization and the potential parking opportunities that would optimize parking conditions within the area of study.
Through a collaborative community involvement process, a phased program of desired improvements were developed and prioritized. Recommendations included intersection and traffic signal improvements to enhance safety and operations for pedestrians, bicyclists, transit and vehicles at gateway intersections to Lawrenceville. Preferred parking locations were identified and bike corrals were recommended for the high volume of bicyclists parking in the area. The follow up study recommended metered parking to limit day-long parking and encourage vehicle turnover on Butler Street.
Traffic Engineering / Parking Consulting
UPMC retained Trans Associates to determine the parking, traffic, and pedestrian impacts of the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Master Plan for the Lawrenceville site on the former campus of St. Francis Hospital. In addition, our firm assisted in general site design issues relative to traffic and pedestrian access, loading and queuing.
Trans Associates’ services included:
- Data collection including turning movement counts, traffic volumes, traffic operations, lane usage, crosswalks, pedestrian signal equipment, pedestrian counts, employee home zip code information, employee surveys, parking accumulation counts, and sight distance measurements
- Parking analysis including determination of existing and future parking demand, parking layout reviews, evaluation of truck loading conditions, and development of a future parking allocation and management plan for the campus
- Traffic analysis including determination of existing and future traffic volumes, trip arrival/departure distributions for employees, patients and visitors, mitigation measures for future master plan developments, traffic signal warrant analyses, evaluation of pedestrian access and safety, sight distance evaluations, traffic simulation modeling, completion of a mass transit analysis including existing and proposed bus and shuttle routes/stops, off-site shuttle lot operations and logistics plan for patient move to the new facility, including travel route, police and ambulance routing coordination.
Traffic Engineering / Roadway Design / Signal Design / Parking & Loading Consulting
Trans Associates provided transportation engineering services related to the development of the Pittsburgh Penguin’s arena in Pittsburgh, now PPG Paints Arena.
Our firm provided data collection and traffic analysis which included pedestrian counts for peak hours as well as specific times before and after events. A transportation management plan was developed which included specific plans for events and parking management.
Trans Associates was further retained to prepare design and construction plans for the reconstruction of two City of Pittsburgh streets in order to provide access to the Lot E loading dock for the arena. The project also included traffic signal design, and extensive utility coordination with Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
