Traffic Monitoring Estimation Guidelines

March 2022

Traffic estimation is important, feeding into several different aspects of transportation planning and asset and network management.

These guidelines are to help the asset manager seeking a process to follow to assign estimates to their network and some of the concepts involved. It is not a comprehensive guideline to assist the experienced practitioner nor cover more advanced and complex techniques that would be justified on a large, complex road network.

These guidelines include a 10-step estimation process:

1. Step 1: Update database with the latest counts
2. Step 2: New sections / sections with no estimate
3. Step 3: Establishing road types and traffic groups
4. Step 4: Estimating sections with counts since the last estimate
5. Step 5: Estimating sections with adjacent counts
6. Step 6: Estimating sections with no recent or adjacent counts
7. Step 7: Traffic mix
8. Step 8: Auditing
9. Step 9: Generating or Reviewing Links
10. Step 10: Count strategy

This is a free item which you can download at any time.

See also: TM 401 – Traffic Estimation and Strategy