THE 'WHY' OF TRAFFIC DATA COLLECTION
WHAT IS TRAFFIC DATA
Traffic counts provide the source data used to calculate the Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT), which is the common indicator used to represent traffic volume. Traffic counts are useful for comparing two or more roads, and can also be used alongside other methods to find out where the Central Business District (CBD) of a settlement is located. Traffic counts that include speeds are used in speed limit enforcement efforts, highlighting peak speeding periods to optimize speed camera use and educational efforts.
WHO USES TRAFFIC DATA
- Retailers and Commercial Real Estate — when evaluating an optimal site for a business.
- Outdoor advertising — matching specific advertising messaging or location with the right audience.
- Insurance companies — when understanding travel risks associated with a location ... “who is driving where.”
- Government — to hone in on details needed to support successful smart city initiatives.
- Storage Facility Development — Data is evaluated for optimal location.
WHICH UNIT SUITS YOUR NEED
- PULSE TECH (TM) TRAFFIC COUNTER
- PHOTOELECTRIC LIGHT-BEAM SENSOR
PULSE TECH (TM) TRAFFIC COUNTER
No more flush-mounted piezo-strip sensor that have the potential of becoming detached from the roadway and damaging passing vehicles, motorcyclists, pedestrians of bicyclists. Our data is uploaded continuously for real time traffic data analysis. With a run time of 384 hours our unit can remain on-site for 16 days for uninterrupted data collection.
Parameters:
- Counting range: 0-99999
- Highest counting frequency: 20HZ
- Minimum counting pulse width: 10ms
- Highest counting speed: 20/sReset: panel/external
- Minimum reset pulse width: 0.1s
- Working temperature: -5 — 40℃
- Dimensions: 457 x 406 x 355mm; Hole Diameter: 50.8mm
- Maximum resistance when connect point on: ≤ 10KΩ
- Minimum resistance when connect point off: ≥ 500KΩ
- Weight: about 0.05KG
- GPS - Location monitoring
- Real time data uploads
- 384 hour run time
PHOTOELECTRIC LIGHT-BEAM SENSOR
Photoelectric infrared light-beam sensors for counting and classifying vehicles.
Our infrared light-beam sensors are mounted just off the shoulder are used to
count the tires on one end of each axle of a moving vehicle with accuracy comparable
to human observers or to a flush-mounted piezo-strip sensor. Sensor installation
involves no pavement cuts and zero interference to traffic.
Arrays of infrared lightbeam sensors are used to sense vehicle-body presence, to calculate vehicle speed, axle spacing, and tire-contact patch dimensions, to indicate single or dual tires, to detect direction of vehicle movement, and to sense over-height vehicles.
Off-shoulder reflex-type infrared sensors operate for up to three months without cleaning.
A two-sensor array are a viable alternative replacement for loop-detector arrays. Infrared sensors can supplement weigh-inmotion systems by indicating off-transducer vehicle tires, correlations between
infrared light-beam sensor measurements and weight are now sufficient to make adequate weight estimates from such measurements practicable.