I am curious.
5279 milliTrafficants per doze, assuming standard route alignment
Ohio doesn't seem to have a centralized placed to look up that information, unlike other states such as Michigan or Wisconsin. It appears to be information a regional planning department may have - I see references for the Columbus and Cincinnati metro areas posting that info.
The term you're looking for is Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT). Typically a 2-lane highway like US-68 should have no more than 8,000 to 10,000 vehicles per day traveling on it for acceptable "Level of Service" - no significant congestion or an abnormal number of accidents.
North of US 33, US 68's AADT hover at around the 5k mark, so that's around 3.5 vehicles per minute.
Quote from: JREwing78 on April 13, 2021, 12:36:58 PM
Ohio doesn't seem to have a centralized placed to look up that information, unlike other states such as Michigan or Wisconsin. It appears to be information a regional planning department may have - I see references for the Columbus and Cincinnati metro areas posting that info.
The term you're looking for is Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT). Typically a 2-lane highway like US-68 should have no more than 8,000 to 10,000 vehicles per day traveling on it for acceptable "Level of Service" - no significant congestion or an abnormal number of accidents.
Sure they do. https://odot.public.ms2soft.com/tcds/tsearch.asp?loc=Odot&mod= . Depending on where you're saying in northern Ohio, it has an AADT of 7382 in between Findlay and Arlington, making it 7382/(24*60) = 5.12639 cars per minute or one car every 11.7 seconds.
Chris
Quote from: jayhawkco on April 13, 2021, 12:50:29 PM
Sure they do. https://odot.public.ms2soft.com/tcds/tsearch.asp?loc=Odot&mod=
Clearly my Google-fu was failing me. Thank you.
Quote from: jayhawkco on April 13, 2021, 12:50:29 PM
Depending on where you're saying in northern Ohio, it has an AADT of 7382 in between Findlay and Arlington, making it 7382/(24*60) = 5.12639 cars per minute or one car every 11.7 seconds.
Keep in mind that's an average for the entire day - one can safely assume about 70-80% of that traffic is happening during daytime hours. So figure it's closer to one vehicle every 4-5 seconds during the day, with very light traffic (say, one every 30 seconds) between 11pm and 5am.
Quote from: JREwing78 on April 13, 2021, 12:54:07 PM
Quote from: jayhawkco on April 13, 2021, 12:50:29 PM
Sure they do. https://odot.public.ms2soft.com/tcds/tsearch.asp?loc=Odot&mod=
Clearly my Google-fu was failing me. Thank you.
Absolutely. It's tough to find them for some states. My AADT thread was a bear for some of them for sure (looking at you, New Mexico).
Chris
Quote from: JREwing78 on April 13, 2021, 12:58:02 PM
Quote from: jayhawkco on April 13, 2021, 12:50:29 PM
Depending on where you're saying in northern Ohio, it has an AADT of 7382 in between Findlay and Arlington, making it 7382/(24*60) = 5.12639 cars per minute or one car every 11.7 seconds.
Keep in mind that's an average for the entire day - one can safely assume about 70-80% of that traffic is happening during daytime hours. So figure it's closer to one vehicle every 4-5 seconds during the day, with very light traffic (say, one every 30 seconds) between 11pm and 5am.
Sure. I just tried to exclude as many variables as possible to come up with the simple answer. I'm sure it's a nice Bayesian distribution.
Chris
General guidelines are that the peak hours are about 10% off AADT in the peak hours and 20% in the urban areas. Of course, every road has its on characteristics and variations, but for very rough estimates that's a good start.
Quote from: JREwing78 on April 13, 2021, 12:54:07 PM
Quote from: jayhawkco on April 13, 2021, 12:50:29 PM
Sure they do. https://odot.public.ms2soft.com/tcds/tsearch.asp?loc=Odot&mod=
Clearly my Google-fu was failing me. Thank you.
Didn't help that ODOT changed their website design, several years back, from being a data center, to now just press releases and traffic flow maps.