Practical guides
Counting traffic from video, in practice.
Short, practical notes for traffic engineers, consultants and city teams. Each takes about five minutes to read.
01
What a traffic count really costs
Counting by hand, counting from video, and the longer studies that become possible when counting is cheap.
02How to prepare CCTV footage for counting traffic
The camera, the files, the names, the clock and night footage: what makes footage work well the first time.
03How to count turning vehicles at junctions with your own cameras
Which cameras work, how to set up entries and exits, and what comes back, with real data to download.
04What 96%+ accuracy means, and how we measure it
Where the figure comes from, why an engineer checks every project first, and how to test it on your own camera.