Specifications include, but are not limited to:Collect Existing Conditions Data 1.The Consultant shall conduct field inspections of the two project areas: the intersection of VT100 and West Hill Road and the intersection of VT100 and Moscow Road. As part of this phase, a local steering committee including VTrans representatives specified by LCPC will be established and the Consultant shall meet with the committee to understand the community’s concerns. The field inspections should note any obvious conditions that may have a major impact on the design of the two projects. The Consultant will take photographs of the project areas and a visual representation of the sites will be presented in the feasibility report. The field inspections shall include bridges, culverts, bus route(s), pedestrian and bicycle facilities, freight movements, traffic control devices, lighting, drainage, access control, utility setbacks and obstacles in the right-of-way. 2.Conduct Traffic Analysis of both existing and future conditions (25 years) of the two intersections based on background traffic growth and future/planned land use development as identified by LCPC and the Town. 3. The Consultant shall obtain readily available pertinent information, such as: wetland and floodplain locations, crash data, pavement condition data, traffic count data, and any available automatic traffic recorder counts. For roadway projects the Consultant will be required to obtain or develop design year traffic data including, but not necessarily limited to Average Daily Traffic (ADT), Design Hourly Volume (DHV), Directional Factor (%D), Percent Trucks (%T) and the intersection and signal (where appropriate) related traffic data (see below
