Highway Occupancy Permit (HOP)

Review Assistance Open-End Contracts
All Counties, PennDOT District 6-0 and District 8-0

Hilltown Crossing · Hilltown Township, Bucks County, PA Review of two high volume driveways and major widening on PA Route 309.

Commerce Bank · Plymouth Township, Montgomery County, PA Review of three low volume driveways and associated widening at the intersection of Walton Road and Township Line Road.

TPD Project Manager: Greg Richardson, P.E.

Client: PennDOT - District 6-0 and PennDOT - District 8-0

Completion Date: 1997, 1999, 2002

For an unprecedented third consecutive term, TPD has been selected as the Prime Consultant to PennDOT on a $1 million contract to provide Highway Occupancy Permit (HOP) review assistance to the District. Along with our subconsultant, TPD has reviewed applications from private development and municipalities for access to and improvement of state and public roadways throughout PennDOT District 6-0 and District 8-0.

The HOP application reviews apply to minimum-use driveways; low, medium, and high volume accesses; and local roads that will be accessing a state roadway. On average, the TPD Team completes reviews within four to eight business days. To date, TPD has been responsible for the successful completion of over 2,500 review assignments over the two consecutive contracts, and we maintain a 100% on-time completion record.

At the Department’s request, the TPD Team has also provided qualified technical and clerical personnel to the District on short order to assist the Traffic Unit on a full-time basis.

The PennDOT jurisdictional area encompassed in this contract includes Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia Counties (District 6-0) and Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster, Perry and York Counties (District 8-0). Throughout the contract, the TPD Team has provided the following services:

• Site visits
• Plan(s) review
• Preliminary submittal and traffic impact study reviews
• Drainage and pavement report reviews
• Preliminary signal plan and DEP-associated traffic reviews
• Applicant/engineer contacts
• Project/client meetings
• Field meetings and final inspections