I’m excited to announce our partnership with Tomorrow Lab to create the 21st Century tube counting system. Frankly, tube counters haven’t changed much since the 1970’s other than to get smaller and cheaper. The wayCOUNT system changes that. The wayCOUNT road tube counter is a rugged, two-port tube counter. Like standard tube counters, it provides […]
Guest Post by Max Moreland, PE, Director of Operations at Traffic Data Inc. Median Acceleration Lanes (MALs) are just what they sound like – an acceleration lane on the inside median. MALs are intended to allow left turning vehicles from the side streets, or U-turning vehicles on the mainline, to complete their turn without needing […]
Savvy retail property owners are realizing many of their parking lots are too big and going unused. One such property owner is Windamere, who hired our sister company Spack Consulting to assist them with determining how they could redevelop the Southdale Office Centre with additional buildings. In the past, we’d go through the laborious process […]
Guest Post by Max Moreland, PE, Director of Operations at Traffic Data Inc. A key initiative of Mike on Traffic and Spack Consulting is to actively share our traffic engineering data and knowledge with others in the transportation industry. Over the last several years we have shared our local trip generation data through TripGeneration.org and […]
Guest Post by Bryant Ficek, PE, PTOE, Vice President at Spack Consulting. Looking through last Sunday’s ads, drones had a prominent spot for at least one store. Several versions were available from under $200 to $2,000 or more. Most included video cameras to provide great photos and/or videos. Since we currently use ground-mounted video cameras, getting […]
The Highway Capacity Manual 2010 (jargon alert: HCM) has been converted to the 6th Edition of the Highway Capacity Manual here at the close of 2016. The HCM 2010 was a historic overhaul while the new 6th Edition is more of an update. We did a live Traffic Corner webinar on December 6th covering the […]
The 6th Edition of the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) is out and we (and others) would characterize it as an update as opposed to an overhaul. While this new manual does contain new and interesting items, we’ll focus on roundabouts for this article. HCM2010 was ground-breaking in the U.S. for providing a new methodology to […]
We collected trip generation data at four big box retailers in Minnesota over the Black Friday retail sale event in November 2015. We also collected data at the same stores during a normal week during the winter in 2016. You can freely dig into the data at TripGeneration.org. Below are summaries of the peak hour […]
How would your forecasting and analysis improve if you could aggregate the historical location data of every car? What if cell phone data was also aggregated so you could analyze mode splits? What if we knew the purpose of each trip? I’ve been blogging about AirSage for five years now, who promises to extract anonymous […]
Trip generation data is at the core of how transportation professionals make traffic forecasts. Do a search of my blog and you’ll see trip generation has been a recurring theme over the last nine years. ITE has been the broker/arbiter of trip generation data for 50+ years. They did a wonderful job with 1960’s technology, […]
