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Traffic, Transportation and Parking Consultants |
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| Federal Depositors Insurance Corporation (FDIC) |
| Arlington, Virginia |
 The FDIC recently expanded their Arlington campus by 419,252 S.F. of office space and 5,340 S.F. of ground-level retail spac e. Parking was increased from 855 to 1,554 spaces on two, secure, underground levels and a third driveway was added on Monroe Street.Wells + Associates was retained by the FDIC to evaluate the traffic, parking, and loading impacts of this expansion. Wells + Associates determined that the existing street network operates at overall acceptable levels of service. Certain movements at key intersections and some turns out of the FDIC  driveways operate near or at capacity, however. Wells + Associates found that the FDIC generates significantly fewer trips than a typical suburban, single-tenant office building due to the close proximity of the Virginia Square-GMU Metro station, FDIC’s location within a relatively dense urban corridor, and the FDIC’s Transportation Management Plan (TMP), which includes public transit subsidies, alternative work schedules, tele-work, carpooling, and parking management. The public street network will continue to operate at overall acceptable overall levels of service, with FDIC expansion. The proposed new FDIC driveway on Monroe Street would give FDIC employees and visitors another choice for entering and exiting the expanded garage. Additional TMP measures were recommended to mitigate FDIC traffic impacts, including membership in Arlington Transportation Partners (ATP), a Property Transportation Coordinator, contribution to the Commuter Assistance Program, a taxi hotline, a parking management plan, on-street loading restrictions, free SmarTrip cards, and a performance monitoring program. Top photo: before expansion 2nd photo: after expansion 3rd photo: Monroe Street |
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