Motorists often drive over pneumatic road tubes without thinking twice, but those traffic counters provide valuable information for civil engineers and municipal officials to ponder.
That information is being sought in Hillsborough according to assistant town manager Margaret Hauth, who wants “real data about the conditions across the entire community.”
Nearly 40 pairs of the slim, black, pressure-sensitive devices will be deployed next week at various locations around town by Quality Counts, a Charlotte-based contracting company.
The counters will be left in place for the majority of the month as employees with the company conduct 48-hour data collection operations on days when schools are in session.
Approximately 80 percent of the funds for the operations have been made available by the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization.
The data is expected to be added to the regional transportation model used by the North Carolina Department of Transportation in addition to creating baseline readings for local traffic volumes.
Photo by NTSS.
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