TRAFFIC SURVEY

TO :-
AR. Shivani Verma
AR. Rupinder Kaur
INTRODUCTION

⦿ Traffic surveys aim to capture data that accurately reflects the real- world
traffic situation in the area.
⦿ It may be counting the number of vehicles using a road or collecting
journey time information, but there are many other types of data that traffic
surveys collect.
⦿ In the past this has involved having people standing by the side of roads
and recording their observations on paper pads.
⦿ In recent years, this approach has been largely replaced by recording
traffic using video cameras, and then analyzing the video footage later in
the office.
⦿ Even more recently, with faster Internet speeds becoming available, some
traffic data collection companies have decided to have their video traffic
surveys counted (or enumerated) by companies overseas.
TYPES OF TRAFFIC SURVEY

⦿ Total Volume Count

⦿ Turning Movement Count
⦿ Origin-Destination Survey
⦿ Axle load Survey
⦿ Speed And Delay
⦿ Pedestrian And Animal Count
⦿ Paring survey
⦿ Benkelmen Beam Deflection
1. TOTALVOLUME COUNT

⦿ Traffic Data Collection is basic requirements for transport planning.

⦿ Traffic Data forms an integral part of national economics and such
knowledge is essential in drawing up a rational transport policy for
movement of passengers and goods by both government and the private
sectors.
⦿ Traffic Volume Count is counting of number of vehicles passing
through a road over a period of time.
⦿ It is usually expressed in terms of Passenger Car Unit (PCU) and
measured to calculate Level of Service of the road and related attributes
like congestion, carrying capacity, V/C Ratio, identification of peak hour or
extended peak hour etc.
⦿ TVC is usually done as a part of transportation surveys
2. TURNING MOVEMENT COUNT
⦿ This survey involves capturing vehicle-turning movements and its
composition in an intersection.
⦿ This information is vital for all strategic Junction Improvements, Signaling,
Planning the Pedestrian Crossing etc. Also it provides the peak hour
Turning movement information.
⦿ We use videos, Manual and sometimes Automatic number-plate
recognition (ANPR ) (for complex Intersections) for Turning Movement
counts.
⦿ It also identifies the Average Daily Traffic, Peak Hour Traffic and its
composition. We use manual, video and ATCCs (pneumatic tubes, IR,
radars) to survey the roadway volume and classification.
⦿ This survey supplies information about the signal timings in an intersection
and the corresponding queue in each arm. This can be supplied as
maximum, minimum, average, spot (nth minute) queue either in car length
equivalents or meters.
⦿ We use both manual and videos for extracting this information.
⦿ These surveys are done manually to gauge the target subject’s opinions
and preferences of a service.
⦿ This helps in making key decisions like pricing, customization or even the
viability of the service.
3. Origin-Destination Survey

⦿ The purpose of the survey cards is to collect data about actual trips being
made in the project study area.

⦿ We use cutting edge road traffic survey equipment and research

mythology to power up the O-D survey data .

⦿ Advanced technologies like ANPR, Bluetooth and expert manual

methods, our data is sure to be accurate, quick, and free from errors
attributed to traditional manual counting process.
4. AXLE LOAD SURVEY
⦿ Road construction and maintenance depend on vehicle density and the
axle load of the vehicles.

⦿ By measuring wheel load and axle configurations, we enable a detailed

presentation of axle load with aggregate level tabulation and graphical
representation.

⦿ This data helps to assess the Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW) and Single
Axle Load (SAL) distributions by truck type and axle configuration.

⦿ Axle load surveys enable determining Vehicle Damage Factors (VDF).

5. SPEED AND DELAYSURVEY

⦿ This survey evaluates the quality of the traffic movement along a route and
identifies the location, cause and extent of the delays in the same route

⦿ This allows the planners to develop improvements.

⦿ Also it can be used as a tool to compare the pre and post effects of any
improvement.

⦿ We use different methods like Floating-car method, moving-vehicle method,

ANPR, videos and GPS to study the accurate Travel Time and Delay
surveys.
❖ METHOD OF SPEED AND DELAY SURVEY

⦿ Floating car technique (requires test vehicle)

⦿ Average speed technique (requires test vehicle)
⦿ Moving vehicle technique (requires test vehicle)
⦿ License plate observations.
⦿ Interview.
⦿ ITS advanced technologies
⦿ Gathering of traffic information based on ‘floating’ sensors.
⦿ New collection method where the car itself functions as Sensor.
⦿ Primary sources for floating car data are GPS devices mobile phones and
bluetooth.
6. PEDESTRIAN AND ANIMALCOUNT

⦿ The survey examines pedestrian behavior at road crossings.

⦿ Ittracks various metrics like delay of pedestrians crossing a road and

the risk posed for both – pedestrians and the vehicles.

⦿This allows town planners to build pedestrian crossing at appropriate

locations and with appropriate layouts .
7. PARKING SURVEY

⦿ Infrastructure development bodies can get to know how much land to

allocate at any given area for parking with the help of paring surveys.
⦿ This way, proper land allocation and utilization is executed and parking
management becomes convenient.
⦿ Right from installing dynamic car park guidance systems to coming up with
parking charging system, the parking surveys provide valuable data .

Some important data that is generated with the help of a parking survey
includes:
•Parking count
•Average parking duration
•Average occupancy rate
•Parking duration survey by interval
•Parking capacity
•Car parking duration distribution