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Traffic Counts
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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. multi-way stops, speed humps and new sidewalks.
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The counts are AAWT's, the Average Weekday Traffic Volumes (Monday - Friday; no weekends). The 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.).
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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.
* Please note: You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the Traffic Volume Lists and map; if you do not, you may download the reader for free from this site www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html and return to this page.
Copies of the traffic count map can be ordered through Kinko's for $10.50 per map. Visit: https://docstore.kinkos.com/cityofcharlotte/.
NCDOT maintains traffic counts that are outside the City of Charlotte limits. Visit the following link if you would like to request these counts. |
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