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Highway Capacity Manual: The most recent edition of the Highway Capacity Manual and all amendments thereto and successor documents as published by the Transportation Research Board. IDOT: The Iowa Department of Transportation Improvements: Any manmade changes to any land, structure, or highway. Improvements, Public: Any improvement necessary to provide for public needs. Intersection: The general area where an access facility and a road or two or more roads or two access facilities join or cross. Intersection Sight Distance: The distance, either right or left, at which a drive stopped at an intersection, can see an approaching vehicle. Island: A defined area between traffic lanes for control of vehicle movements or for pedestrian refuge. ITE: The Institute of Transportation Engineers. ITE Trip Generation: The Most recent edition of any supplements thereto of the informational report ITE Trip Generation, and any successor documents. Land-Use: See Use Land-Use Density: An intensity measurement usually expressed in terms of the number of units or square feet of a particular land-use permitted to be built, constructed, or placed on a defined parcel of land. Lot: A single legally divided parcel of land. Lot, Corner: A lot abutting on two roads at their juncture. Median: A portion of a divided highway or divided driveway separating the traveled ways for traffic flowing in opposite directions. A median can either be raised or flush with the pavement.