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Special Tabulations

U.S. Traffic Monitoring Location Data

State highway and transportation agencies build, operate and maintain a system of traffic count stations to monitor roadway usage by obtaining vehicle volume, vehicle class, and vehicle weight information. These traffic monitoring stations can be either permanent or temporary (portable). Permanent traffic monitoring stations operate on a continuous basis throughout the year. Permanent stations are also referred to as continuous count stations. Temporary (portable) or short duration count stations refer to these locations where traffic counting is carried out over less than a full year. Often, short duration portable count time is 48 or 72 hours.

Data Items:

The following data items are associated with a given station. For detailed description and coding information on these data items, please reference 2013 FHWA TMG Guide Chapter 7 Section 7.2 at
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/tmguide/tmg_2013/traffic-monitoring-formats.cfm#STATION-DESCRIPTION

FHWA Active CCS Site Map

A map of Federal Highway Administration active Continuous Count Station sites in the United States. Details can be found at the link.

1: Data to be used with ESRI’s ArcGIS – Download: august2015_ARCView.zip (316 kb)

TMAS2015august.dbf
TMAS2015august.prj
TMAS2015august.shp
TMAS2015august.shx

2: Data to be used with Caliper’s TransCAD – Download: august2015_TransCAD.zip (465 kb)

TMAS2015V1.bin
TMAS2015V1.bx
TMAS2015V1.dbd
TMAS2015V1.cdd
TMAS2015V1.cdk
TMAS2015V1.dcb
TMAS2015V1.dsc
TMAS2015V1.dsk
TMAS2015V1.lok
TMAS2015V1.pnk
TMAS2015V1.r0
TMAS2015V1.sty
TMAS2015V1.grp

3: Data in CSV Format – Download: august2015_CSV.zip (217 kb)

TMAS2015_august-laye.txt

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