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4••■•••■11 4 The pro3ectior of aircraft operations is a highly inexact art dependent upon a number of factors unique to each airport. FAA generally rep:amends con- 1 ; sideration of! 500 to 1000 annual operations (an operation is a takeoff or a landing) per aircraft permanently based at the airport, with an average of 750 used for preliminary review. This figure is inclusive of all operations including transient traffic. In North Carolina, we find that actual annual operations per based aircraft at the public general aviation airports range from a laa of 131 at Lexington to a high of 1 737 at Wilson. The average is approximately 850. Mr. Matthews goes onto say is would be reasonable to as*me 500 operations/ My year for ach based aircraft at PldwaAVIZY.=, Highway Traffic (enerated: lie have discu4sed with our Division of Highways the figures they would use to estimate generated highway traffic. Theeuse two different figures depending .;: upon their analysis of potential airport use. One figure is that each aircraft operation would generate -5 one-way highway trips. The other figure is that 7 each based aircraft would generate 5.8 daily one-way highway trips. Calculations 7 / ' for Mid-iay Airport result in the following figures. A. Based on Operations 500 annual ops/based aircraft x 276 based aircraft =': 138,000 annual/ . ' (_,...-_- : __ 2/. ops.; 138,000 annual ops x 2.5 highway trips/op = 345,000 annual vehicle trips; --4> 345,000 annual vehicle trips I-, 365 days = 945 vehicle trips per day. B. Based on Based Aircraft - - . 276 based aircraft x 5.8 highway trips = 1600 vehicle trips per day ) Be says N.C. DCW is most comfortable with the figures based on anniik operations. He suggests the 945 rotor vehicle trips/day is most reasonable. M 0(6 Highway 54 currently has 0,000 motor vehicle trips/day. -The number of transient aircraft will typically be 15%-20% of the number of based aircraft. The State feels that the numbers of transient aircraft 1