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Title: Estimation of annual average daily traffic for off-system roads in Florida. Final report

Abstract

Estimation of Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT) is extremely important in traffic planning and operations for the state departments of transportation (DOTs), because AADT provides information for the planning of new road construction, determination of roadway geometry, congestion management, pavement design, safety considerations, etc. AADT is also used to estimate state wide vehicle miles traveled on all the roads and is used by local governments and the environmental protection agencies to determine compliance with the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendment. Additionally, AADT is reported annually by the Florida Department of transportation (FDOT) to the Federal Highway Administration. In the past, considerable efforts have been made in obtaining traffic counts to estimate AADT on state roads. However, traffic counts are often not available on off-system roads, and less attention has been paid to the estimation of AADT in the absence of counts. Current estimates rely on comparisons with roads that are subjectively considered to be similar. Such comparisons are inherently subject to large errors, and also may not be repeated often enough to remain current. Therefore, a better method is needed for estimating AADT for off-system roads in Florida. This study investigates the possibility of establishing one or more models formore » estimating AADT for off-system roads in Florida.« less

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Florida International Univ., Lehman Center for Transportation Research, Miami, FL (United States); Florida State Dept. of Transportation, Tallahassee, FL (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
698663
Report Number(s):
PB-99-164634/XAB
TRN: 92701796
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 28 Jul 1999
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; FLORIDA; SAMPLING; RURAL AREAS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS; ROADS; VEHICLES; TRAFFIC CONTROL; CLEAN AIR ACTS; COMPLIANCE; PROBABILISTIC ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS

Citation Formats

Shen, L D, Zhao, F, and Ospina, D I. Estimation of annual average daily traffic for off-system roads in Florida. Final report. United States: N. p., 1999. Web.
Shen, L D, Zhao, F, & Ospina, D I. Estimation of annual average daily traffic for off-system roads in Florida. Final report. United States.
Shen, L D, Zhao, F, and Ospina, D I. 1999. "Estimation of annual average daily traffic for off-system roads in Florida. Final report". United States.
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abstractNote = {Estimation of Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT) is extremely important in traffic planning and operations for the state departments of transportation (DOTs), because AADT provides information for the planning of new road construction, determination of roadway geometry, congestion management, pavement design, safety considerations, etc. AADT is also used to estimate state wide vehicle miles traveled on all the roads and is used by local governments and the environmental protection agencies to determine compliance with the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendment. Additionally, AADT is reported annually by the Florida Department of transportation (FDOT) to the Federal Highway Administration. In the past, considerable efforts have been made in obtaining traffic counts to estimate AADT on state roads. However, traffic counts are often not available on off-system roads, and less attention has been paid to the estimation of AADT in the absence of counts. Current estimates rely on comparisons with roads that are subjectively considered to be similar. Such comparisons are inherently subject to large errors, and also may not be repeated often enough to remain current. Therefore, a better method is needed for estimating AADT for off-system roads in Florida. This study investigates the possibility of establishing one or more models for estimating AADT for off-system roads in Florida.},
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url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/698663}, journal = {},
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place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jul 28 00:00:00 EDT 1999},
month = {Wed Jul 28 00:00:00 EDT 1999}
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