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Category Archives: Data Collection
Proven Safety Countermeasures
In 2008, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) created a document outlining 9 safety countermeasures which utilize a data driven approach to reduce serious injuries and fatalities on American highways. Based on the most recent research, the FHWA updated the safety countermeasures in January 2012.
This week’s blog, we’ll review the first five safety countermeasures.
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The Transportation Industry Celebrates Earth Day
This month we celebrate Earth Day which is an annual event to bring awareness to the environment and focus on environmental issues. The transportation industry has been implementing many green initiatives and this Earth Day, we’ll focus on what government organizations and State DOTs are putting into action.
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Faulty Traffic Data Used in Northern Virginia BRAC
A couple of weeks ago, I posted a blog article entitled, Top 5 Reasons to Automate Your Spring Counts, which briefly covered the use of faulty data in Northern Virginia and the importance of accurate traffic data. This started a number of discussions about traffic data accuracy and the consequences for cutting corners, so I decided to dedicate this week’s blog to this occurrence.
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Top 5 Reasons to Automate Your Spring Counts
This week, we’ll focus on why many transportation professionals are now automating their traffic studies. The start of a new year provides a great time to step up your traffic data collection efforts and leave the manual counters in the dust.
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Top 3 Traffic Data Projects to Start Off Your Spring Count Season
This week’s blog, Miovision reviews the Top 3 Traffic Data Projects to Start Off Your Spring Count Season. These top three traffic data collection projects will provide efficiencies with resources – the equipment can be used amongst these three projects. The traffic data collected are also relatable and can be used for various other projects.
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Urban Congestion Impacts and Improvements
The US Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) released their annual Urban Congestion Trends for 2010 and shows an increase in congestion and traffic levels overall within US urban cities. According to the report, congestion levels increased in all of the urban cities measured.
What strategies and initiatives can traffic engineers introduce? What are urban cities actively implementing and what results have they achieved?
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Reducing Crashes on Urban Arterial Roads – Part 2
Last week’s blog article was the first half of a two part blog which was exploring how arterial roads can be improved to reduce crashes from a traffic engineer’s perspective. This week, we’ll review a couple of locations within the DC area where a few strategies were implemented to improve safety and driving conditions along arterial roads.
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Reducing Crashes on Urban Arterial Roads
This week’s blog will be a ‘two parter’, exploring how arterial roads can be improved to reduce crashes from a traffic engineer’s perspective.
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The Importance of Signal Optimization and Signal Retiming
The US has about 300,000 traffic signals and Canada has about 50,000. Many of the signals could improve their operations simply by adjusting the timing. Signal optimization is one of the most cost effective measures that can significantly reduce congestion and help with traffic flow on arterial roads.
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Proven Safety Countermeasures – Part 2