GEOCOUNTS Data Supply System
Data Supply vs Traffic Counting - What's the Difference?
We promote and use a safe, reliable and scalable data supply system. What exactly is a data supply system?
A data supply system prioritises the stakeholder's use of data over any single collection technique.
This is similar to how the design of a successful transportation system must prioritise where people are going over any particular mode of transport.
The various modes of transport - car, truck, bike, train etc - are all necessary and essential, but they are components in the overall transportation system, not the system itself.
Similarly, the various traffic counting technologies and techniques - hoses, inductance loops, speed studies, class studies, etc - are all essential, but they are components in the overall data supply system.
We think of traffic counting as part of the larger supply system - however its a part stakeholders typically pay for, so its become our business in Australia!
Data Supply System Is for Network Management
A data supply system considers every aspect of data, not just how its collected at the point of origin.
The system informs every aspect - what type of metadata is needed to identify it, how its decoded, how its stored, how its broadcast, how its classified, how its compared with other information - in order to deliver widely sourced information over long time periods.
A data supply system delivers accurate information about a large network over a long period of time.
Good Data Supply Leads to Better Budgets
A single traffic count is useful by itself yet its use is much better if it can be compared with counting done at the same point 3 years ago. How much better? Much better, because:
- A comparison over time reveals a trend
- And a trend leads to a forecast
- And a forecast is the foundation of a budget
So, a good data supply system will improve how money is spent on the network whereas a poor one - or none at all - creates confusion and waste.
Below are examples of how the GEOCOUNTS Data Supply system is being used
Widespread Adoption of Technology
Great equipment makers like Metrocount, Miovision and Excel Technologies already produce GEOCOUNTS compatible data
You will find GEOCOUNTS built into many famous brands of equipment:
Use of GEOCOUNTS Data Supply System in Australia
Transport for NSW (RMS)
TfNSW is using TUPI, File Manager and the Relay to load all Weigh-In-Motion data into its corporate reporting service
Victoria Police
VicPol is receiving daily data from VicRoads via the GEOCOUNTS Relay
Department of State Growth, Tasmania
The Department of State Growth is using Traffic Server and GEOCOUNTS Traffic to manage all of Tasmania's statewide traffic data
References:Transport for Victoria (VicRoads)
VicRoads is using TUPI to Manage is Rural Telemetry (Continuous) Counters
US Department of Transportation
The US DOT uses Traffic Server, GEOCOUNTS Traffic and File Manager to deliver reports to National Parks
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