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Transportation Assessment Guidelines

Published by City of Hamilton

This is the City of Hamilton’s document, as published on its website on 19 October 2026. The municipality may have changed it since: check the current version at the source. Legal notice

Type: Guide
Published by: City of Hamilton
Date: 2024
For: designer
Building types: All building types
Pages: 54

Overview

Hamilton's Transportation Assessment Guidelines, 2024, from the Planning and Economic Development Department, update the 2009 Transportation Impact Study Guidelines for studies filed with Official Plan and Zoning By-law Amendments, draft plans of subdivision and site plans. They cover pre-study consultation with Transportation Planning, report types from a trip generation letter to a full assessment, count data, traffic forecasting, multi-modal level of service, intersection and queue analysis in Synchro, complete streets conditions and mitigation strategies, with fifteen appendices of checklists, templates and modelling parameters.

What it covers

Preamble
Introduction
Policies and Documents that Inform the Guidelines
Qualifications to Conduct a Transportation Assessment
Pre-Study Consultation
Street Typology
Report Structure and Content
Trip Generation Letter/Memo
Data Requirements
Traffic Forecasting & Analysis
Multi-Modal Level of Service Assessments (MMLOS)
Transportation Analysis
Vehicle Turning and Circulation Plans
Complete Streets Desired Conditions Matrix
Transportation Impact Mitigation Strategy
Transportation Assessment Submission Checklist
Synchro Output Display Template
Functional Plan Drawing Requirements

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