Collecting Vehicle Merging & Weaving Patterns on a Freeway

Collecting Vehicle Merging & Weaving Patterns on a Freeway


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Recently, a company contacted Traffic Data Inc. to help collect traffic data for their upcoming research project. Most of our traffic counts focus on daily volumes, turning movement counts, and/or gap studies. This study was unique in that our client was interested in documenting vehicle merging and weaving patterns at freeway interchanges. This presented a couple of unique challenges, including...
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City Uses Video to Show ADT Levels

City Uses Video to Show ADT Levels


Mark Ray, Crystal, Minnesota City Engineer and Public Works Director, put his COUNTcams to great use in educating his council members. He put together the video below to show how busy roads are during the p.m. peak hour with ADTs of 19,000 vehicles per day, 8,000 vpd, 700 vpd, and 100 vpd. Note – the videos are playing at 4x speed because most roads are painfully slow to watch at 1x speed.
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Key Learnings from a Week Long Traffic Count

Key Learnings from a Week Long Traffic Count


Last summer, Traffic Data Inc. (TDI) was contacted about gathering traffic data near a warehouse in suburban Minneapolis. Construction was necessary behind the warehouse and the only access to the land was through the warehouse parking lot. Naturally, the warehouse owner was concerned about the impact of this new truck traffic on their existing traffic operations.
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