Profession,
DOT
Our data collection firm, Traffic Data Inc., is now on the market for a new traffic counting vehicle. We wanted to share with you some of the features we’re looking for. These are things that we’ve noticed in other vehicles and simple best practices from our experience.
Data
I fondly remember being “stuck” at a fraternity party during the Halloween Blizzard of 1991 when Minneapolis was hit with 28 inches of snow on October 31st. Now that I’m in the business of traffic counting, October 31st also looms in my mind as a deadline of sorts. We push to get our tube counts done before then to avoid the impending snowplows.
traffic,
Data Collection,
Occupancy Data,
Carousel collection,
Data,
high occupancy
About ten years ago, we sat on the side of Hiawatha Avenue in Minneapolis after the Light Rail Transit line was opened adjacent to it in Minneapolis, and counted the number of people in each car as they passed by as well as the number of bicyclists/pedestrians on the adjacent. Metro Transit had data on how many riders were on the light rail trains and used this data combined with the information...
Data Collection,
Data,
COUNTcam,
Video Data Collection,
COUNTcloud
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.
Data Collection,
Data,
COUNTcam,
Video Data Collection,
COUNTcloud
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...
Design,
Video Traffic Counting,
Road Design,
Analysis,
Data,
COUNTcam,
Corridor Study
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...
