KENDALL SQUARE Annual Transportation Data Report

The CRA conducts annual traffic studies (trip generation reports) to justify reduced traffic projections used in a Massachusetts Environmental Protection Agency (MEPA) analysis covering additional development within the Kendall Square Urban Redevelopment Plan (KSURP). The CRA has conducted this report on an annual basis since 1994.

In 2015, the CRA expanded the scope of monitoring and created a more robust Annual Transportation Report to reflect the evolution of Cambridge's transportation priorities. This version of the report is currently being redeveloped to become even more dynamic and insightful in coming years. In the meantime, the CRA continues to conduct its more technical trip generation reports as it has for over three decades.

2024 Trip Generation Report

The original transportation study for the KSURP area ("1977 FEIR") projected that the KSURP development area would generate 19,300 new vehicle trips per day. Once added to existing area traffic counts, the total projected weekday traffic volume at five street locations was estimated to be 83,300 vehicles. When compared against the "1977 FEIR" projection, the counts in the fall of 2024 are about half of that estimated level.

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