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Turning movement counters (TMC's) are devices used to manually quantify the movement of vehicles through an intersection. TMC's are square shaped boxes that have buttons for each direction of traffic flow. For example, east bound traffic entering an intersection has a button for those vehicles that turn, left, right or continue straight.
A portable video camera unit mounted to a traffic signal pole for traffic counting [2] A radar-based traffic counter (about 2/3 of the way up the pole) powered by a solar panel (near top of pole). A traffic counter is a device, often electronic in nature, used to count, classify, and/or measure the speed of vehicular traffic passing along a ...
State and local governments frequently perform traffic surveys with a pneumatic road tube traffic counter. [2] Rubber hoses are stretched across a road and wheels of passing vehicles create air pulses that are recorded by a roadside counter. [2] In the 1970s the counts were mechanically recorded on a roll of paper tape. The time and number of ...
TIRTL receiver on a portable stand (the device is more commonly built into a curb) The Infra-Red Traffic Logger, more commonly known simply by the acronym TIRTL, is a multi-purpose traffic sensor that can be used as a traffic counter, speed sensor, red light camera sensor, heavy vehicle tracker, overheight vehicle sensor, rail crossing sensor and network management system. [1]
Extract of the 2023 Annual Average Daily Traffic Count for Miami, Florida. Annual average daily traffic (AADT) is a measure used primarily in transportation planning, transportation engineering and retail location selection. Traditionally, it is the total volume of vehicle traffic of a highway or road for a year divided by 365 days. AADT is a ...
Metered ramp on I-894 in the Milwaukee area. A Portland, Oregon ramp meter. A ramp meter, ramp signal, or metering light is a device, usually a basic traffic light or a two-section signal light (red and green only, no yellow) together with a signal controller, that regulates the flow of traffic entering freeways according to current traffic conditions.
A people counter is an electronic device that is used to measure the number of people traversing a certain passage or entrance. Examples include simple manual clickers, smart-flooring technologies, infrared beams, thermal imaging systems, Wi-Fi trackers and video counters using advanced machine learning algorithms.
Traffic-sign (speed limit) recognition. Traffic-sign recognition (TSR) is a technology by which a vehicle is able to recognize the traffic signs put on the road e.g. "speed limit" or "children" or "turn ahead". This is part of the features collectively called ADAS. The technology is being developed by a variety of automotive suppliers to ...