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.. CJ/fJS access to a student parking area and to a maintenance area in the southeast area of campus. . The frontage road can be accessed both from campus and directly from Snelling Avenue. According to a 1995 Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT) traffic count, the average weekday traffic on northbound and southbound Snelling Avenue, just north of County Road E, was respectively 16,651 and 15,797 vehicles per day (vpd) or a total of 32,448 vpd in both directions. According to a 1997 Ramsey County traffic count, the average weekday traffic on Old Highway 10 (between County Roads E and E2, just south of Bethel Drive) in both directions combined was 8,397 vpd. Appendix A contains data from the Mn/DOT and Ramsey County traffic counts. Note that the Mn/DOT and Ramsey County data is raw data, with no adjustments for season or day of the week. According to Bethel College personnel, a certain amount of traffic on Bethel Drive is generated by vehicles simply using the roadway as a shortcut between Old Highway 10 and Snelling Avenue, It is estimated that this "through traffic" may comprise as much as ten percent of the traffic on Bethel Drive. Study Description Beginning in late 1996 traffic counts were recorded at three locations on campus. As shown on Figure 1, counts were taken at the west end of Bethel Drive near its intersection with Old Highway la, at the east end of Bethel Drive near its intersection with Snelling Avenue, and on the east frontage road. . Traffic counts were taken during each of the four school-year semesters: Interim Semester - January 6 through January 28, Spring Semester - February 3 through May 16, Summer Semester - May 28 through June 19, and-Fall Semester - September 2 through December 10, In most cases, traffic counts were obtained using simple "road-tube" counters which count traffic in both lanes without distinguishing directionality or time relationships, The exception to use of road-tubes was during the fall semester when "sprite" counter systems were used on the two main campus entrances. Sprite counting systems do distinguish direction of vehicles and record traffic versus time. As a supplement to the automatic traffic counting, SCI and Bethel College provided periodic manual traffic counts during each of the four semesters, Data sheets from these counts are included in Appendix B, Study Results Complete results of the traffic study are contained in Appendix B, including: . Tabulations of Daily Counts . Tabulations of Periodic Manual Traffic Counts . Manual Traffic Count Data Sheets . Detailed Printout of Fall Semester Results (i.e., traffic directionality, statistics, peak factors, etc.) . Upon receipt of data downloaded from the "sprite" counter systems used for the fall traffic counts, discrepancies were discovered with the east entrance data. Vehicle counts recorded mjw:mjw/raf:13444rpt.QOl '-2 STANLEY CONSULYAHTS