The City of St. Louis Park, Minnesota had a neighborhood reconstruction project planned for 2018 with significant resident concerns about traffic issues. The situation is not unique, but the engineering staff’s approach to the project was.
Forgetting stuff. It happens all the time. Whether it be your keys, your sunglasses, or your boxed-up leftovers at a restaurant that you had already mentally told yourself would be your lunch for tomorrow, we’ve all left home (or a restaurant) and forgotten to bring something at some point.
Most trip generation data that is collected is vehicle-based and is focused on land uses where there is parking. However, collecting this type of data in urban areas, where parking isn’t abundant and people use multiple modes of transportation, is much more challenging. Yet, having an understanding of how people travel to urban destination is vital for cities and developers to better plan for the...
I'm heading to the Midwestern ITE district meeting next week in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Below is our poster that will be up at the Friday poster session. Shoot me an email (mspack@spackconsulting.com) if you're going – I'd love to catch up. I'll also be live tweeting at @MikeOnTraffic.
Just talked to a client of ours who asked for a quote to get a.m. and p.m. 2-hour turning movement counts at two intersections that are each controlled with stop signs (we do have a standard price list for our Minneapolis, Minnesota area – Download our most recent TDI Price List). Because we’re counting with the COUNTcam video system now, we’ve changed our pricing structure quite a bit so it’s...
Since I was an intern at Image Sensing Systems working with the Autoscope in 1994, I thought our industry should be doing turning movement counts with computers instead of people. That’s why I was excited to be an early adopter of Miovision who promised automated turning movement counts. After working with Miovision for half a year, I figured out (1) they deliver accurate data, although we don’t...
