MSL conducted Directional Traffic Count Survey, Traffic Volume Count and Roadside O-D Interview Survey and Section Traffic Count Survey in order to determine the future traffic flow on this access road.
For the Directional Traffic Count Survey, volume of vehicles in 3 selected locations has been counted. In all the locations, roads for a period of 24 consecutive hours has been observed to count the traffic in one weekday and one weekend, where the duration 24 hours started from 6:00 a.m. of one day and continue till 6:00 a.m. of the following day.
For the Traffic Volume Count and Roadside O-D Interview Survey, volume of vehicles in one selected location has been counted and the drivers of around 27% counted vehicles were interviewed. For this location, the road for a period of 12 consecutive hours has been observed to traffic count and conduct driver’s interviews on the same weekday of the Directional Traffic Count Survey, where the duration 12 hours started from 6:00 a.m. and continue till 6:00 p.m. of the day. MSL also counted the persons walked through the road in both the directions.
For the Section Traffic Count, volume of vehicles in one selected location has been counted. In this location, the road for a period of 16 consecutive hours has been observed to count the traffic on the same weekday of the Directional Traffic Count Survey, where the duration 16 hours started from 6:00 a.m. and continue till 10:00 p.m. of the day. MSL also counted the persons walked through the road in both the directions.