Best Practices

To create a general awareness throughout the professional transportation community about the capabilities of available traffic analysis tools and to demonstrate the benefits of using these tools, FHWA is producing the Traffic Analysis Tools Case Studies. This document will efficiently and effectively address both common and unique problems of the type typically encountered by practitioners. It will document and profile example real-world applications of the traffic analysis tools.

The Traffic Analysis Tools Case Studies will serve to document real-world applications of the various available tools, and will address topics such as the rationale for selecting the particular analysis procedure(s) employed, the manner in which each tool was applied, the specific benefits achieved, and possibly even the significant pitfalls that were encountered.

The Traffic Analysis Tools Case Studies document will be written to meet the needs of two primary audiences:

transportation managers, who are responsible for making funding decisions but who are not typically involved in the details of traffic analysis; and
transportation engineers/analysts, who are the primary users of the traffic analysis tools and who are responsible for actually conducting the individual traffic analyses.

Transportation managers will gain a better awareness of traffic analysis tools: what they are, what they can do, and how their use can save time, provide more defensible results, address problems whose resolution would otherwise be intractable, and enhance decision makers' understanding through use of visual aids such as animation. Transportation engineers/analysts will gain insights into the selection and application of appropriate analysis tools to resolve the full range of problems typically encountered; they will also have a better understanding of how to assess and interpret the analysis results in ways that lead to more effective and defensible recommendations.

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