The comparison of automatic traffic counting and manual traffic counting

Abstract

The main purpose of traffic surveys is to know current state of transport and for design and solution of transport in the future. For collecting traffic data, traffic surveys are carried out which consist in counting the number of vehicles of different categories. There are many ways of collecting traffic data. This paper deals with manual counting and with automatic vehicle counter. Two traffic surveys were made and results from manual counting and automatic counting were compared. The aim is to find and describe advantages and disadvantages of selected types of traffic counting.