Aquarelle shopping and entertainment centre is a project unique for Volgograd, designed with specific consideration of the city's landscape and economy. Aquarelle is 3 times larger than any shopping centre currently working in Volgograd. A unique combination of key success factors makes Aquarelle the main shopping, entertainment and leisure destination in both Volgograd and entire region, a new centre of city life!
The purpose of the study is to perform transportation impact study by means of computer
simulation and to evaluate the concept of traffic organization in the adjacent
territory of the planned site in order to ensure effective use of mall
“Aquarelle” objects and safety and convenience of prospective traffic
participants.
New shopping mall “Aquarelle” will be located on the east side of Universitetsky
prospect between M. Vasilevskogo and G.Zasekina streets on the borders of
administrative regions “Sovetskiy” and “Kirovskiy”
Total
land plot area is 252860m2. The building area approximately is 68782m2 from
total plot area, delivery zones ~12544m2, roads and pavement ~90965m2, parking area ~52206m2 and greenery ~28363m2.
The shopping mall area is 121834m2 (GFA -
Gross Floor Area) and 92140m2 (GLA - Gross Leasable Area). New mall is
planned to put into operation in year 2012. The site envisages 4044 parking
places.
Projected traffic was forecasted for 2012 and
2022 years.
Capacity analyses have been performed for five
alternatives of access to the planned site. Critical intersections that are key
access points along the perimeter of the project were identified. Other important
intersections that include significant volumes of site traffic, within the area
of influence of the project, were judged critical because of existing and
projected congestion.
All suggested alternatives were designed and
evaluated according to standards and norm of Russia Federation and performance
measures. As a result the best and preferred alternative for implementation is Single
Point Urban Interchange (SPUI) with frontage roads.