Standard Practice for Installing and Using Pneumatic Tubes with Roadway Traffic Counters and Classifiers

Abstract

3.1 This practice addresses the recording of traffic characteristics, using pneumatic tubing with recording devices. This practice provides information for use with professional judgment by governmental agencies and private firms in the management of roads and roadway traffic. 3.2 Traffic monitoring is important to the safe and efficient movement of people and goods. The purpose of this practice is to ensure that traffic monitoring procedures produce traffic data and summary statistics that are adequate to satisfy diverse and critical traffic information needs.