Project Title and Description
Spring Garden Street Bridge and Powelton Village Traffic Evaluation
The project is a multimodal evaluation of traffic entering and exiting an area in the Powelton Village and Mantua neighborhoods in the City of Philadelphia. The area is bounded by Haverford Avenue, Powelton Avenue, N 34th Street, and Anne D’Harnoncourt Drive as shown in the attached Figure 1. Currently motorized vehicles and bicycles have to navigate the labyrinth of stop signs to get from the Spring Garden Street Bridge to University City. In addition, local pedestrian and bicycles movements have to compete with high speed traffic and unsafe intersection geometries. The goal is to streamline motorized traffic as well as increasing safety and convenience for non-motorized traffic to operate in the area. Such solutions include a diverging diamond interchange on the Spring Garden St. Bridge, cycle tracks, and traffic calming throughout the study area which should addressed the increase in congestion due to future development of the 30th St District plan, which will be built over the SEPTA and Amtrak railyards, and uCity Square (former University City High School.
Faculty Advisor
Robert H. Swan, Jr.
Please contact the faculty advisor at rhs53@drexel.edu.
Team Make-up by Discipline
Minimum three-member team made up of CIVE-Geotechnical, CIVE or AE-Structures, CIVE - Transportation. Not approved for Environmental Engineering students.