Collecting and Managing Traffic Data on Local Roads

This report examines traffic counting practices on local roads from five perspectives: 1. Current MnDOT traffic counting practices; 2. Traffic counting technologies appropriate for temporary deployment; 3. Literature review of traffic counting practices on local roads; 4. Surveys of statewide participants in MnDOT's traffic data collection program (initial and supplemental surveys); and 5. Survey of state DOTs' local road traffic data collection practices.