We’ve spent about four months on the redesign of CountingCars.com. I think (hope) it’s a significant upgrade. We also added mobile responsiveness so the site looks great on your phone or tablet too. I’d appreciate you checking out the site and letting me know if you have any thoughts about it. Thanks!
Guest Post by Max Moreland, EIT, Traffic Data Inc/Spack Consulting/CountingCars.com The NCITE February 2015 section meeting was held this week and featured a presentation by Derek Leuer (MnDOT Assistant State Traffic Safety Engineer) on MnDOT’s efforts to improve rural roadway safety. The presentation had a focus on low cost ways that can be applied system […]
Over the last three years, Dakota County has become one of our larger clients at Traffic Data Inc. We have an annual agreement with them so they can call us up and have us video/count intersections throughout the year. They provide a list of about 60 signalized intersections they want counted for their signal timing […]
Minimum Viable Product – It’s all the rage in Silicon Valley. Basically, get the first generation of a product out as fast as possible so you can get feedback from customers, improve the product by iterating, and work on growth. Through my work at CountingCars.com, I’ve learned a lot about the product world in the last […]
Through discussions with several of our city clients, I stumbled on the idea of creating a guide that would lay out procedures for handling common traffic related requests. The document will include “swipe files” – draft emails and other documents that a city employee could use for their communications (with just minor modifications for the specific request). […]
I’m very excited to announce two new COUNTcam traffic video recorder models: the COUNTcam 100 and the COUNTcam 200. Continuing with our naming tradition, the COUNTcam 100 records for 100 hours and the COUNTcam 200 records for 200 hours (over 1 full week). We started from scratch and redesigned the electronics to use lithium ion-batteries instead of lead acid batteries. Our […]
Based on this summary of academic work by Dr. John Gilderbloom, converting one way streets to two-way streets improves the livability in neighborhoods by: Reducing Crime Reducing Collisions Increasing Property Values Increasing Business Revenue/Taxes Increasing Bicycling Traffic Increasing Pedestrian Traffic Increasing Vehicle Circulation Dr. Gilderbloom’s research is consistent with Minneapolis’ experience of converting the Hennepin […]
The Minnesota Department of Transportation defines access management as “the planning, design and implementation of land use and transportation strategies in an effort to maintain a safe flow of traffic while accommodating the access needs of adjacent developments.” In plain English, access management is the practice of limiting driveway or street intersections on a road […]
Researchers at UC Davis have published an interesting article on “smart growth” trip generation (what a great term folks coined, it implies everything else is “dumb growth”). Check it out HERE. The methodology looks sound, and is typical of late, picks on ITE’s Trip Generation data. Below is a chart from the Access Magazine article that highlights how […]
