Traffic Analysis: New Technology and New Solutions

The material presented in this book was initially prepared as part of a series of courses in traffic engineering held at monash university in may 1986. For some time the transport engineering profession had been aware that practising planners and engineers lacked courses that would teach them, in detail, about the fundamentals of modern traffic data collection and analysis. The scope of the courses was limited to the two areas of traffic data collection and traffic data analysis. The traffic survey methods workshop was concerned with existing and new techniques and technologies for undertaking traffic surveys. There was an emphasis on the use of microprocessors in data collection. The traffic data analysis workshop examined the design of traffic experiments, and the uses to which the traffic data may be put in analysis and design. It emphasised microcomputer based techniques. The notes from these two workshops have been combined as a basis for this book. (TRRL)