Contagem de tráfego em estradas municipais.

Abstract

Most counties of the state of Rio Grande do Sul do not use any type of traffic counting. Usually, the precarious management standard addopted by the counties does not ask for such data, which are essential for the optimization of the available funds. The current traffic counting methods are very costly, therefore, not suitable to be used in low traffic flow roads as it occurs in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Then, alternative methods have been evaluated. The counting method developed by the Transport Road Research Laboratory; UK, has been chosen mainly because of its simplicity and applicability.