Development of Accurate and Reliable Average Annual Daily Traffic (AADT) Factoring Methods

According to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), “Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT) estimates, with as little bias as possible, the mean traffic volume across all days for a year for a given location along a roadway”. AADT provides crucial information about road activity in terms of vehicular volume (i.e., vehicles per day) on specific road segments. As such, it plays a pivotal role in supporting highway agency activities that include planning, design, maintenance, operations, safety, environmental analysis, finance, engineering economics, and performance management. Moreover, AADT serves as a key parameter for the allocation of funds to state Departments of Transportation (DOTs). Nebraska DOT (NDOT) is required to collect and report AADTs to the FHWA annually as part of the Highway Performance Monitoring System program, as well as make these data publicly available. This is because AADTs are used by a wide range of stakeholders in Nebraska, including NDOT divisions, city traffic engineers, and private consultants. Therefore, providing accurate AADTs is imperative, while using inaccurate AADTs in one or more of the mentioned studies would result in direct economic losses for the state.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $150732
• Sponsor Organizations:

  Nebraska Department of Transportation

  1500 Nebraska 2
  Lincoln, NE  United States  68502
• Project Managers:

  Halsey, Lieska

• Principal Investigators:

  Zhao, Li

  Huynh, Nathan

• Start Date: 20240701
• Expected Completion Date: 20260531
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accuracy; Annual average daily traffic; Factor analysis; Traffic data
• Identifier Terms: Nebraska Department of Transportation
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01920540
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Nebraska Department of Transportation
• Files: RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jun 4 2024 3:01PM