On the traffic effects of frontage land uses on urban main roads and arterials

The paper contains an outline of the methods of estimating the traffic generation of isolated and small groups of frontage land uses, ie, supermarkets, motels, hotels, service stations. The effects of the interaction of the generated traffic with the traffic on the frontage road or roads are analysed. The discussion is extended to deal with the more general traffic effects of 'ribbon development' in cases where the frontage road serves a hinterland of land uses on either side of it (A).