Advancing Highway Traffic Monitoring Through Strategic Research: 2024 Update

Monitoring travel on the nation's roadways is crucial for understanding the dynamics of the U.S. transportation system. This involves both broad assessments, such as calculating annual average daily traffic to report on vehicle miles traveled, and detailed analyses, like examining freeway operations on a minute-by-minute basis.

TR Circular E-C292: Advancing Highway Traffic Monitoring Through Strategic Research: 2024 Update, from the Transportation Research Board, is a collaborative effort of over 60 specialists across different sectors of travel monitoring and encapsulates the collective wisdom in the field within the United States. Every five years, TRB’s Committee on Highway Traffic Monitoring compiles insights from field experts to evaluate current practices and innovations in travel monitoring, setting the groundwork for future research directions.