Wells + Associates Qualification

We have worked on various traffic impact analysis projects since our founding in 1991

We expertise in transportation planning, traffic engineering services, parking management and design, transit planning, pedestrian and bicycle planning, and traffic engineering design.
We are headquartered in McLean, Virginia. We have two branch offices and three satellite offices. We have worked in 34 states, the District of Columbia, and four foreign countries since our founding in 1991.

We specialize in complex, mixed-use, multi-modal urban and suburban projects. Mixed-use, transit-oriented, town centers; street retail projects; school, college, university, hospital, and office campuses; traffic signal design and related design services; and shared parking studies are our specialties.

Our clients are: private real estate developers; local, state, and federal agencies; and institutions, including hospitals, schools, colleges and universities, museums, and places of worship.
We are proud of our team of outstanding professionals, long list of blue chip clients, and track record of success.

We serve our clients with competence, creativity, and integrity.

 

Professional Transit System Planning

Public transportation reduces the number of trips made in private vehicles, vehicle miles of travel (VMT), and greenhouse gas emissions; facilitates compact, mixed-use, pedestrian-friendly development; saves energy; and improves air quality

MJWells & Associates have conducted:

• 185 studies in 60 of the 86 existing Metro station areas in metropolitan Washington
• 10 studies at all four planned stations along the Silver line extension through Tysons Corner
• 11 studies at three of the eight planned stations along the Silver line extension from Tysons Corner to Dulles Airport and beyond.

Metro stations were the focal point of these studies.
We also have recommended shuttle bus connections to Metro stations that are beyond convenient walking distance (generally considered to be ¼ to ½ mile of the station).

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Transit-Oriented Development: Lessons Learned

A transit-oriented development (TOD) is a mixed-use residential and commercial area designed to exploit access to public transport, and habitually incorporates features to encourage transit ridership.  A TOD usually has a center with a transit station or stop like train station, metro station, tram stop, or bus stop, bounded by relatively high-density development with increasingly lower-density development spreading outward from the center. 

Wells + Associates has completed 185 studies of projects within ½-mile of 60 of the existing 86 Metro stations, another 22 studies at seven of the 12 stations along the planned Silver Line extension in Northern Virginia (including all four stations in Tyson’s Corner), and several of the stations along the planned Purple Line and Corridor Cities Transit way in Montgomery County, Maryland.

Throughout this experience we have learned many things from TOD which are listed below: 

1. Mutually Supportive: Metro and TOD are mutually supportive.
2. Metro is the centre of things: Metro is the centerpiece of transit-oriented development (TOD) in metropolitan Washington. TOD's are vibrant, compact, mixed-use, walk able communities.
3. Density Is Good:  Density should be high in the immediate locality of station.
4. Green Transportation: TOD's are more sustainable than other forms of development because they increase transit use and decrease auto use, vehicle-miles of travel (VMT), and greenhouse gas emissions.
5. Residents, Workers, and Visitors Use Metro: High-quality Metrorail, Metro bus and other different feeder bus services are attractive and comfortable alternatives to the private automobiles.
6. Location Matters: Transit ridership decreases as distance from the station increases.

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Get significant experience in traffic impact studies

Traffic Impact Studies evaluate the traffic impacts for new retail centers, residential subdivisions, office buildings and adjacent public roads. For more details visit http://www.mjwells.com/ or call 7039176620

Travel demand management - Traffic and parking problems

Visitors and vehicle parking problems can be fixed in one of two ways  improve or reduce need. 

Increasing supply requires developing new streets, increasing current streets, developing more vehicle parking areas, operating more transport services.  This can be expensive, time intensive, and in many instances undesirable to business, government authorities and the community.

The need for journey and vehicle parking can be affected by Transportation Demand Management (TDM) programs.  Common TDM measures include rewards to use transport, ride-sharing, vehicle parking management, substitute work daily activities, bike and people upgrades, better treating current resources, and telecommuting. 

Travel demand management can be seen as any action or set of activities targeted at impacting individuals' journey activities in such a way that substitute options are presented and/or over-crowding is reduced.

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