Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Traffic Flow: Traffic Studies What You Will Be Learning From This Chapter
Traffic Flow: Traffic Studies What You Will Be Learning From This Chapter
Chapter 1
Traffic Flow
What you will be
TRAFFIC STUDIES learning from
this chapter …
• Traffic Volume
• Spot Speed
1
BFC 32302 Traffic Engineering and Safety Lecturer: Dr. Basil David Daniel
2
BFC 32302 Traffic Engineering and Safety Lecturer: Dr. Basil David Daniel
MANUAL COUNT
Manual Count method ......
Applied when small sample of data is required.
For periods less than one (1) day.
Normal intervals are 5, 10 or 15 minutes.
Counts are not usually taken on Mondays, Fridays and
weekends.
4
BFC 32302 Traffic Engineering and Safety Lecturer: Dr. Basil David Daniel
MANUAL COUNT
Manual counting board
Tally sheet
Electronic
counting board
5
BFC 32302 Traffic Engineering and Safety Lecturer: Dr. Basil David Daniel
AUTOMATIC COUNT
Automatic Count method ......
Applied when large sample of data is required.
For periods more than one (1) day.
Normal intervals are 1 hour for a 24 hour period.
Counts may extend to a week, month or year.
Portable Counters
Permanent Counters
Videotape
6
BFC 32302 Traffic Engineering and Safety Lecturer: Dr. Basil David Daniel
AUTOMATIC COUNT
PORTABLE COUNTERS
PERMANENT COUNTERS
Loop Detector
7
BFC 32302 Traffic Engineering and Safety Lecturer: Dr. Basil David Daniel
8
BFC 32302 Traffic Engineering and Safety Lecturer: Dr. Basil David Daniel
Intersection crossing
Midblock crossing
9
BFC 32302 Traffic Engineering and Safety Lecturer: Dr. Basil David Daniel
10
BFC 32302 Traffic Engineering and Safety Lecturer: Dr. Basil David Daniel
11
BFC 32302 Traffic Engineering and Safety Lecturer: Dr. Basil David Daniel
12
BFC 32302 Traffic Engineering and Safety Lecturer: Dr. Basil David Daniel
Like volume studies, spot speed studies are also not taken on Mondays,
Fridays and weekends.
STOPWATCH METHOD
16
BFC 32302 Traffic Engineering and Safety Lecturer: Dr. Basil David Daniel
17
BFC 32302 Traffic Engineering and Safety Lecturer: Dr. Basil David Daniel
Recorder
Pneumatic
Road Tubes
18
BFC 32302 Traffic Engineering and Safety Lecturer: Dr. Basil David Daniel