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Future Circulation Network The Transportation Element of the Lodi General Plan calls for certain roadway improvements within the project area. These include: 1) Widen the railroad crossing at Guild Avenue 2) Extend Turner Road East and Guild Road North to intersect each other. 3) Widen Lockeford Street from Church to Cherokee 4) Extend Guild South to Kettleman These improvements are intended to provide circulation to and within the northeast area which according to the City General Plan is proposed for extensive industrial use. Future Traffic To assess the impact of expanding the project it will first be necessary to do two things: one, determine the amount of traffic that the northeast industrial area would attract to local streets when it is fully developed and two, add the traffic produced by the expanded project to the local circulation system. The number of trips that could be attracted to the northeast industrial area based on its future size (see General Plan Map Figure T-6) may be estimated by using the publication entitled: "Trip Generation, Third Edition" by the Institute of Transportation Engineers. This source indicates an average rate of 60 (rounded) trips per acre for industrial uses (see appendix). On this basis, using 440 acres of industrial development between Highway12 and the Mokelumne River in northeast Lodi, 26,000 trips would be attracted to the area on an average weekday in the future (at or about 2000 AD). From other studies it was assumed that traffic (workers, etc.) would be attracted to the industrial area within a driving radius of 10 or 15 miles. Therefore, the outer limits would include: Elk Grove; Clements and Stockton as the tributary area. The "Quick Response System II" (QRS) prepared for the U.S. Department of Transportation was used to assign traffic over major routes to and within the northeast industrial complex. These assignments were based on: dwelling units (from Post Office information), speeds on the routes and capacity constraints. Running the QRS program gave the ADT that would be attracted to the local road network by full development of the Northeast industrial area. It took into account new road links and widenings proposed in the Transportation Element of the Lodi General Plan. 42