Traffic Counts

The Villages, by nature of design, aims to minimize auto-related transportation impacts. There are opportunities for other modes to accommodate movements, the best example being the separate multi-modal transportation (golf cart/bicycle/pedestrian) trails built throughout the community including grade separated crossings at major roadways. It was determined through the latest origin-destination (O-D) study that golf carts alone accommodate 33 percent of the trips generated. The measured mode split also shows that autos are used for only 64 percent of the trips, which is already much lower than the Florida statewide average of 91 percent (from analysis done by the University of South Florida).

In addition, there are a wide range of internal commercial, recreational, and medical sites that limit the need to perform external trip making, as well as reduce the average length of trips. The internal capture rate of The Villages development is 75 percent during the p.m. peak hour.

Traffic Projections