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Traffic Counts
The Charlotte Department of Transportation maintains a Traffic Count Program for traffic volume counts on thoroughfares and some non-thoroughfares within the Charlotte city limits.  

Each thoroughfare is on a two-year rotation for counts unless the road falls under a special need to be re-counted.  Such a special need might be for the opening of a new road where a count may be performed before the opening and after the opening, in order to achieve a comparison of the traffic volumes or a new accurate count.  Most non-thoroughfare counts are performed for special projects, i.e. traffic calming and new sidewalks. 
The counts are AAWT's, the Average Weekday Traffic Volumes (Monday - Friday; no weekends).  Thoroughfare counts are taken as a 48-hour count and averaged between the two days to arrive at a 24-hour count.  This avoids counting the traffic only once on a particularly busy day or a particularly slow day, (long weekend, special weekday event, etc.). Non-thoroughfare counts are taken for a 24-hour period, on school days only unless it is determined by staff that school traffic does not influence the street's traffic volume.
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The count tubes are also placed approximately 200 feet away from an intersection to avoid cars waiting to enter into the intersection.  This allows for a more accurate count.

NCDOT maintains traffic counts that are outside the City of Charlotte limits. Visit the following link if you would like to request these counts.

Traffic Counts
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2012 Traffic Counts.pdf2012 Traffic Counts382 KB
2011 Traffic Counts.pdf2011 Traffic Counts195 KB
2010 Traffic Counts.pdf2010 Traffic Counts108 KB
2009 Traffic Counts.pdf2009 Traffic Counts93 KB
2008 Traffic Counts.pdf2008 Traffic Counts137 KB
2007 Traffic Counts.pdf2007 Traffic Counts158 KB
2006 Traffic Counts.pdf2006 Traffic Counts217 KB
2005 Traffic Counts.pdf2005 Traffic Counts51 KB
2004 Traffic Counts.pdf2004 Traffic Counts27 KB
2003 Traffic Counts.pdf2003 Traffic Counts82 KB
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