Common use of TRAFFIC PROJECT STUDIES Clause in Contracts

TRAFFIC PROJECT STUDIES. The Engineer shall perform the following: a. Meetings and Teleconferences - The Engineer shall participate in working meetings or teleconferences with the State, the Transportation Planning and Programming Division of the State (TPP), Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), and other pertinent agencies. The first meeting shall be the kick-off meeting to verify the project schedule, points of contact, study methodology including definition of required analysis scenarios and analysis to be conducted by others, acquisition and application of the MPO TransCAD model, data sources, traffic factors, development of design traffic volumes, and documentation required to address project- specific criteria required by the State. The project kick-off meeting shall be held at the State’s District Office. The Engineer shall prepare meeting notes and the decisions regarding the study design process and proposed methodology shall be documented in a preliminary meeting memorandum and submitted for review and approval by the State.