The Tartu vehicle census system

Data on traffic flows in the city are the basis for road maintenance and traffic planning. A manual count is one way of obtaining data. However, an automated year round census system is a contemporary method for collecting information on urban traffic.
In 2018, the City of Tartu announced a public procurement for the acquisition of a vehicle traffic census system. By the beginning of 2019, TRAFFEST set up a census system that surrounds the city, which counts vehicles with the exactness of traffic lanes, classifies vehicles according to three classes of length and measures the speed of all vehicles. The census information is transmitted in real time to the city’s IoT platform, thus allowing further development of adaptive traffic management in the future.