Guide to traffic management part 3: traffic studies and analysis

The Austroads Guide to Traffic Managementhas 13 parts and provides comprehensive coverage of traffic managementguidance for practitioners involved in traffic engineering, road design, town planning and road safety. Part 3 – Traffic Analysisis concerned with the collection and analysis of trafficdata for the purpose of traffic managementand trafficcontrol within a network. It serves as a means to ensure some degree of consistency in conducting trafficstudies and surveys. It provides guidance on the different types of trafficstudies and surveys that can be undertaken, their use and application, and methods for trafficdata collection and analysis. Part 3 updates previous Austroads guidance on trafficstudies and capacity analysis. It covers applications of the theory presented in Part 2 of the guide, and provides guidance on traffic analysisfor uninterrupted and interrupted flow facilities and for various types of intersections. It outlines sound methods of analysis for effective traffic management, design and control. (a)