Collect travel data
Tailor-made services
Technologies Nouvelles tailors its operations to your projects integrating a range of services including :
- Continuous automatic counting campaigns over a given period using equipment such as radars or pneumatic tubes
- Directional counting that measures the distribution of vehicle and pedestrian movements in line with an intersection
- Origin-Destination surveys that highlight routes taken by users within a district or a commune
- Cycle or pedestrian campaigns that focus on the development of active mode practices in a communal area or on an urban section
- Parking surveys that analyse occupancy usage of parking areas
- Interview surveys used to better understand the travel habits of user
Traffic data collection
Technologies Nouvelles carries out the bulk of the traffic counting and survey operations that are essential to record travel within a commune, as well as on high and low traffic density roads.
Our teams take all types of measurements:
- Measurements of traffic, speed, and reports of queuing traffic on a section approaching a traffic light junction or a roundabout
- Counting of the number of pedestrians and cyclists using traditional and/or automated methods depending on your prerequisites
- Measurements of the frequency of public transport and use (boarding and alighting from transport at bus stops and coach stations, etc.)
The results of these measurements represent the volume of traffic, taking into consideration all users and all modes of travel including pedestrians, cyclists, light vehicles, heavy vehicles and public transport, as well as factors associated with mobility such as flow, speed and congestion.
Applications permitted by this new data source provide a solution to your specific problems:
- You are a commune and you want to understand the transit dynamics at stake on a main section in your area
- You are a department and you want to enhance your knowledge of traffic over a wider network
- You are a road manager and you want to obtain an overall picture of periods of everyday congestion or congestion due to accidents or roadworks
- You are a project manager and you want to define a deviation plan that will be adapted to routes impacted by future works.
Regardless of the recording method employed, the data collected constitutes the database used to conduct traffic studies, and to respond to the different challenges of mobility.
Conventional survey and counting methods
Two ways of recording traditional traffic data:
- Present on site and equipped with a manual counter or a dictaphone, surveyors record the volume of traffic on the road and/or passing pedestrians, or other information such as the partial recording of number plates, the length of tailbacks and the number of people boarding/alighting from public transport (buses, trams, trains, etc.).
- Video sensors located upstream of the site record traffic data. They are used to limit the presence of survey personnel at the site and therefore to promote site safety.
In both cases, the data collected is processed by experienced technicians.
Automated methods guarantee the accurate recording of volumes and distribution of traffic in order to quantify flow and trace the routes of users for a given sector, by cross-referencing the data of traffic both entering and exiting the areas studied.
This approach relies on video sensors and automatic licence plate reading devices.
Innovative traffic data collection method
Our teams also develop new innovative traffic measuring technologies by using Floating Car Data (FCD) extracted from GPS positions generated by moving vehicles or by mobile applications.
This data is used to reduce dependency on equipment and therefore to count traffic on a wider scale, covering an entire town/city, department, or an even larger area.
Using FCD validates an innovative approach by completing or replacing traditional or automated counting methods. Trends observed provide a new and more in-depth knowledge of traffic:
- A global spatial analysis of a flow from its origins to its destinations or an extended road network,
- A historic analysis conducted to discern changes over the long term or to identify past events such as accidents or roadworks.
