Traffic & Transportion Survey
TYPES OF TRAFFIC SURVEYS: –
1. Classified Traffic Volume Count: –
It is important to know the traffic volume and different vehicle classes’ composition in any roadway for strategic planning, improvements and maintenance. It also identifies the Average Daily Traffic, Peak Hour Traffic and its composition. We use manual, video and ATCCs (pneumatic tubes, IR, radars) to survey the roadway volume and classification.
2. Traffic Volume Surveys- ATCC
Power up your transport and road management planning with our Automated Traffic Count and classification (ATCC). Augment the road transport and road asset management policy efforts with accurate and timely data provided by our secure ATCC systems. With our sensor based car counting system, you can keep track of various metrics like congestion, carrying capacity, V/C Ratio, identification of peak hour or extended peak hour etc.
3. Turning Movement Count: –
This survey involves capturing vehicle-turning movements and its composition in an intersection. This information is vital for all strategic Junction Improvements, Signaling, Planning the Pedestrian Crossing etc. Also, it provides the peak hour turning movement information. We use videos, Manual and sometimes ANPR (for complex Intersections) for Turning Movement counts.
4. Speed & Delay Survey: –
The principle objective of the study is to find out the journey speed, running speed and types of delay such as stopped delay and operational delay to evaluate the level of service or quality of traffic flow of a road or entire road network system. It would include: Carrying out the surveys during only peak period in both directions. Collection of delay information on different road stretches and at intersections/level crossings in the study area.
5. Parking Survey: –
The principal objective of the study is to assess the demand for parking and Characteristics of the parked vehicles. The survey is to be conducted for a period of 16 hours on important commercial areas where parking is predominant and is needed to plan facilities.
Parking survey is a tool to identify the demand and capacity of parking by the planning authorities. Parking survey is carried out both ON road and OFF road. This survey gives a detailed report on duration of stay, turnover, frequency, accumulation, illegal parking, and revenue and capacity studies. We use manual, video, ANPR to extract the necessary information.
6. Axle Load Survey: –
Axle Load surveys provides average pavement loading information which facilitates authorities and civil companies in road management and pavement design. They are essentially useful for locations where no loading data is available.
7. Signal Timing and Queuing survey: –
This survey supplies information about the signal timings in an intersection and the corresponding queue in each arm. This can be supplied as maximum, minimum, average, spot (nth minute) queue either in car length equivalents or meters. We use both manual and videos for extracting this information.
8. Enforcement surveys: –
Enforcement related surveys include speed surveys, Helmet Usage, Bus lane/ Taxi Lane misuse, driving on the wrong side of the road, Driving on a one-way road, Illegal parking, Yellow box stoppage, Red Light crossings, etc. Our surveys will identify the frequency of offences, type of offence so that the enforcement agencies can do the needful.
9. Opinion and Preference Surveys: –
These surveys are done manually to gauge the target subject’s opinions and preferences of a service. This helps in making key decisions like pricing, customization or even the viability of the service.
10. Boarding / Alighting Survey (Public Transport Surveys): –
Understanding the public transport usage is vital for all strategic decisions on Public Transport improvements. This gives a detailed report on the usage pattern of the Public Transport. On a micro-level, this also gives information about the Passenger boarding and alighting, running times, dwell times and occupancy for different services. The survey also gives a detailed report of passengers entering and exiting Bus stand or a Railway station at any given time. We can also monitor the queue at the ticketing office as a part of the survey. We use manual, videos for extracting the required information.
11. Origin Destination Survey (OD): –
This survey identifies the travel pattern of vehicles along a road network. This survey spots where most vehicles originate in a network and finish their journey and it also shows how often they take this path. This can also be done using Roadside Interviews depending upon the location and feasibility. OD surveys of people can also be collected manually by interviewing them.
12. Pedestrian and Non- Motorised Transport Users (NMT) Survey: –
It is essential to monitor the people movement for better infrastructure planning especially the pavements and crossings. This survey can be a simple volumetric count of pedestrian crossing or a more complex study involving tracking the pedestrian movements. This survey highlights the composition of pedestrians like School kids, Adults, Elderly, and Disabled etc. We use videos and manual method to track the pedestrians.
13. Cross Pedestrian and Animal Surveys: –
The survey examines pedestrian behavior at road crossings. Its tracks various metrics like delay of pedestrians crossing a road and the risk posed for both- pedestrians and the vehicles. This allows town planners to build pedestrian crossing at appropriate locations and with appropriate layouts.
14. Willingness to pay survey: –
Willingness to Pay Surveys on population or on a particular facility. The data form this survey drive price optimization of existing and new products or services. By taking in various criteria like motivation to use the product or services, or social-economic status, predicting the right pricing for a good or service is made possible. This helps to put a price on public utility services like water, sanitation and solid waste disposal, that the maximum population would be inclined to bear. The outcomes are used for infrastructure need forecasting and cost-benefit analyses of long-term demand.
15. Speed Assessment Survey: –
It is very important considering the rise of accidents because of speeding. Our survey will help the enforcement authorities to identify the speeding regions on a roadway before investing on enforcement equipment like cameras etc. Speed is a vital factor in designing the roads. We use pneumatic loops and Radars to extract the maximum speed and average speed.
16. Road Safety Audit: –
It is an important assessment that has to be carried out by the authorities along with several agencies to ensure the safety of the existing road or the proposed road. We will be able to assist the authorities depending upon their requirement at various stages.
17. Road Network Inventory/Topography Survey: –
This is a comprehensive survey which can be used to study the profile of the roads in the area of study. Features like Road/pavement widths, Road/pavement types, street lighting, luminosity, drain types, encroachments, tree, structure, presence of vendor’s/street furniture, bus/auto stops etc. can be studied and detailed resulting in the most accurate and detailed profiling of the existing conditions.
18. Household Interviews
These surveys involve visiting sample households in the area of study. This study gives detail information on key factors like demography, travel patterns, trends, availability of essential facilities etc. Collection of data on socio-economic characteristics, household members and their travel diary covering a size of reasonable samples. The survey questionnaire comprises of three sections, a) Socio-economic datasheet, b) Household member characteristic datasheet, and c) the travel diary of each individual member of the household. The travel diary section requests information of all trips made by each person in the household on the previous day. This information includes the time of the trip, the trip purpose, the address of the trip starting, ending place and the mode of travel. This data will have to be collected by visiting a fixed sample in each area of the town (zone). Each Household constitutes a sample.
19. General Survey/Study: –
We will be able to assist you with any other specific data collection that you may have like Retail footfall, market study, driver behavior, Gap surveys etc. Our survey experts will be able to design a survey to fulfil your requirements.