Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Applications of traffic volume studies

Applications of traffic volume studies

  • Planning, traffic operation and control of existing facilities and also for planning and designing new facilities,
  • Classified volume is used for structural design of pavement, geometric design and computing road user capacity,
  • Volume distribution is used in planning one-way street and regulatory measures,
  • Turning movement is used in the design of intersection, signal timing etc
  • Pedestrian volume used for planning pedestrian facilities, sidewalk, crosswalk
  • Traffic pattern and trend are used as measure for facilities improvement and priority of projects.

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