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Our Work History
*Bicester Village, Bicester
*Croydon Transport Model
*Carlisle Cordon Study
*Enfield Residential Routes
*Fosse Park Leicester
*Hereford Multi-Modal Study
*Lambeth CPZ Review
*Southend Parking Assessments |
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Our Promise
*100% Accurate Data
*Customer Satisfaction
*In-house operation (we don't outsource)
*24/7 Survey Availability
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What’s a
Traffic Survey?
A
Traffic Survey includes a number of
data collection activities based on observing the
movement of traffic or people.
Surveys range from counts at
T-Junctions,
Cross-roads or
Roundabouts, to analysing
Queue Lengths, and Traffic Signals.
Surveys could also include counting pedestrians and bicycles, and
could be at a
junction, footpath or cycleway, or
even a public event. Sometimes, there could be a need to
monitor the traffic and pedestrian
activities at a rail line
Level Crossing. A special case of a
Traffic Survey is a
Parking Survey looking at
parking characteristics whether on
the street or in a car park.
How do
Traffic Surveys help?
There are many reasons why you would need a
Traffic Survey. It could be
for making an assessment of the impact of a range of developments
such as a shop, superstore, shopping park, community centre, leisure
centre, schools, colleges, universities, or even a new
road system. Sometimes
engineers and planners need a
traffic survey to help them with
modelling road layouts and the flow of
traffic. Some types of
development-related planning applications may require
Traffic Surveys to secure a
successful application.
Who would request a
Traffic Survey?
Typically requested by developers or their agents such as
development planning firms, architects who are perhaps looking at
new-build or conversion projects, as well as civil engineering and
transport planning consultancies
concerned with road and access design, or cycleway and footpath
design, or studying the
impact of traffic or modelling new
layouts. Sometimes local authorities and central government
may request a
traffic survey to help them with
monitoring traffic on their roads
or making assessments of design proposals or planning applications.
Transport Assessments
Some development planning applications require a Transport Statement
or Transport Assessment (or better known as a TS or TA), especially
if they are expected to have a traffic or transport impact on the
highway network.
Automatic Traffic Counts (ATC)
These are completed using Automatic Traffic Counters, often referred
to as an ATC. The usual appearance on-site is a pair of rubber
tubes across the road, connected to the ATC machine at one end on
the side of the road. They are an extremely cost-effective
method of obtaining a wide variety of data such as classified
traffic flow, giving a full breakdown of every type of vehicle that
has passed over the tubes, as well as their speeds – all by
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Junction surveys
