Transportation Resources: Local and Regional

Contacts:  General

• Click here to find out who to contact about traffic and road concerns

Road Data

• Click here to determine if a particular road is a state road 
• SCDOT Traffic Count Data

Road Project Information

• Charleston County Transportation Projects
• Charleston County Resurfacing Projects
• Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester Council of Governments (BCDCOG) Existing Plus Committed Projects
• BCDCOG Charleston Area Transportation Study (CHATS) (our region’s designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO))
• SCDOT Current Projects Portal

Contacts:  Road Maintenance

• If you have issues with state road maintenance, you can contact SCDOT at SCDOT Maintenance Request Form
• If you have issues with Charleston County road maintenance, you can contact them at Charleston County Work Order Request Form
• Click here to request a road be repaved

Encroachment

• If you want to encroach into a SCDOT right-of-way (e.g. put a driveway in) go here to apply for an Encroachment Permit.

First use the SCDOT Street Finder Tool to determine who is responsible for maintaining a specific road.

STATE

• SCDOT Maintenance Work Form

 CHARLESTON COUNTY

• Charleston County Department of Public Works, Transportation
• Charleston County Work Order Request Form
• Bike path or Sidewalk Maintenance 

CITY OF CHARLESTON

• City of Charleston Department of Transportation
• Bike path or Sidewalk Maintenance 

• Charleston County Transportation Committee, Transportation Plan:  2020
• Charleston Citywide Transportation Plan: 2018
• Charleston County Road Funding
• Charleston County Road Projects
• Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester Council Of Governments (BCDCOG) Charleston Area Transportation Study (CHATS)
• BCDCOG CHATS 2040 Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP)
• BCDCOG CHATS LRTP Bicycle & Pedestrian Mobility
• South Carolina Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Action Plan:  2022

• Main Road Corridor (County website)
• Kiawah Island Parkway Intersection  and Corridor Study, Town of Kiawah:  2022
• Public Information Meeting Results:  2021
• 2045 Projected Maximum Peak Hour Volume to Capacity (v/c) Ratios by Study Area Segment – Main Road Corridor Segment C:  2020
• Main Road Segment A Stakeholders Meeting:  2019
• County Council's Approval Sheet for the Main Road Corridor Project:  2018
• 2016 Half-Cent Sales Tax Ordinance and Referendum:  2016
• Sea Island Greenway

• Kiawah Island Parkway Intersection and Corridor Study (2022)  

• Maybank Highway improvements (County Website)
• Pitchfork Layout
• Maybank Highway Traffic Operational & Queuing Analysis: 2015
• Maybank Highway Public Information Meeting:  2012
• Maybank Hwy Improvement Recommendations (Pitchforks):  2009
• Update to the Maybank Highway Widening Traffic Study;  2008 

• Mark Clark Extension (SCDOT website)
• Charleston County Projects, Mark Clark Expressway
• Intergovernmental Agreement for Charleston County Mark Clark Expressway Extension Project:  2019
• Mark Clark Expressway Financial Plan:  2018
• Mark Clark Expressway Extension Reevaluation:  2016
• A New Way to Work :2015
• Conditions for Approval:  2013
• Options for the Path Forward:  2012
• SCDOT and USC Release Survey Results on the I-526 Extension Project: 2012
• Mark Clark Expressway Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS):  2010
• Mark Clark Community impact Assessment: 2006
• County Application to the State Transportation Infrastructure Bank for Funding:  2005
• Re-Routing Sought for Belt Freeway:  1969
• Inner Belt Freeway:  1967

• BCD Available Transit
• Lowcounty Rapid Transit

• US 52 Corridor Study (BCDCOG)
• Highway 41 Corridor Improvements (County)
• Highway 41 Corridor Purpose and Need (County)
• Central Park Road and Riverland Drive Intersection Improvement (County)
• I-526 Lowcountry Corridor (SCDOT)
• I-526 Lowcountry Corridor WEST Purpose and Need (SCDOT)
• Rethink Folly Road (BCDCOG)
• Rethink Folly Road (City)

• Hurricane drill along SC coast Thursday will test lane-reversal plans (8 June 2022)
• Hurricane Evacuation Routes
• South Carolina Hurricane Evacuation Behavioral Study:  2011

• SCDOT Projects Under Development
• SC Transportation Infrastructure Bank
• SCDOT Strategic Plan
• SCDOT 10 Year Plan
• SCDOT Programs and Projects
• SCDOT Access Management
• SCDOT Adopts New "Complete Streets" Policy
• SCDOT Traffic Counts
• SCDOT Functional Road Class

• 2021 Infrastructure Law

• SCDOT Road Design Manual
• SCDOT Right of Way Acquisition Manuals

• A Roadmap to Understanding Transportation in Your Community 
• Small Town and Rural Multimodal Networks
• Complete Streets
• The Wrong Way to Set Speed Limits (video)

• Traffic Calming Primer, US DOT FHA
• SCDOT Traffic Calming Guidelines (2019)

• Roundabouts spreading like Kudzu across South Carolina, despite some opposition (20 May 2017)
• Modern Roundabout Intersections: A New Traffic Intersection Technology, That Is Not Actually New 
• SCDOT Traffic Calming
• Roundabout benefits
• Roundabouts and Rural Highways (dot.gov)
• Roundabouts:  An Informational Guide (National Cooperative Highway Research Program)
• Turbo Roundabouts
• Crash Reductions Following Installation of Roundabouts in the United States 
• Roundabout Database
• Roundabouts and Why They Work (video)
• Roundabouts Improving Safety in South Carolina (video)