1995-2025 Traffic Volumes Report

Transportation Planning requires traffic counts. The information obtained from these counts enables
planners and engineers to study existing road and highway conditions and traffic circulation. The ability to project future traffic volumes provides the opportunity to identify potential problems before they develop as well as seek solutions to existing situations. Traffic counts help validate traffic model forecasts.
The Old Colony Traffic Volumes Report (1995-2025) contains the most up-to-date traffic counts from a variety of sources; annual percentage growth rates for state numbered highways; and the methodology necessary to project future traffic volumes on the road network.
The Old Colony Traffic Volumes Report (1995-2025) contains traffic information from the past 30 years from a variety of sources including Old Colony Planning Council, Massachusetts Department of
Transportation (MassDOT), and various consulting and engineering firms. A traffic flow map utilizing a “band width” scale (see Appendix) illustrates the volumes on major roadways in the region and surrounding areas.
The traffic volumes on this map are based on recent traffic counts and factored historical count data.
During each count season, the completed Automatic Traffic Recorder (ATR) counts are uploaded to the Transportation Data Management System (MS2). MS2 is a tool developed by MassDOT to organize traffic count data. It allows the ability to upload data from a traffic counter; view graphs, lists and reports of historic traffic count data; search for count data using either the database or the Google map; and print or export data to your desktop. The process of storing count data in MS2 involves collecting traffic count data, uploading count data, verifying count data quality, and assigning count data to count locations.