Last week I shared the first part of a presentation I gave at an ITE Western District Conference. I released the first half of my presentation last and this is the second article in this two part series.
Since 2001, my businesses, Spack Consulting and Traffic Data Inc., have provided data collection and analysis throughout the Midwest. As portable video camera systems to collect traffic volume data has become mainstream in the last five years, my colleagues and I are not only collecting more hours of traditional turning movement counts for a lot less money, we’re also using this new technology to...
Over the last three years, Dakota County has become one of our larger clients at Traffic Data Inc. We have an annual agreement with them so they can call us up and have us video/count intersections throughout the year. They provide a list of about 60 signalized intersections they want counted for their signal timing program and then they sprinkle in intersection counts as questions/projects...
