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Traffic Counts

Using Big Data to Improve Traffic Counts

December 1, 2017

For years, Gene Hicks thought there had to be a better way to count the number of vehicles traveling his state’s roadways. As director of the Minnesota Department of Transportation’s (MnDOT’s) Traffic Forecasting and Analysis Section, Hicks oversees the tedious task of laying out road tubes at approximately 33,000 sites (about 12,000 each year) to […]

Filed Under: Texas Transportation Researcher, Volume 53, Number 4 Tagged With: Big Data, mobility, planning, Traffic Counts

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