Civil engineering training

Traffic volume count can be collected by the following methods:-
Manual counting:- In this method, a field team of enumerators (traffic persons) is deputed to record traffic volume on the prescribed record sheets in a specified period. A sample of the field sheet which is used for traffic counts....

Here is few purposes of traffic volume study:-
To establish relative importance of any route or road facility.
To decide the priority for improvement and expansion of a road and to allot the funds accordingly.

Here is a few purposes
To collect the data about type and volume traffic at present and to estimate the same that the road is expected to carry in near future.
To determine the existing facilities such as traffic regulation and control intersection, etc. provided on roads so as to decide the priority for improvement and expansion of any particular road and to allot the funds accordingly....

The following information are usually collected during traffic studies:-
Type of traffic:- It means representation of traffic either by weight or by shape like trucks, buses, private cars, horse-driven vehicles, Single-bullock, double-bullock vehicles, motor cycles, auto-rickshaws, rickshaws, cycles or any other type of traffic...