This is to establish relative importance of any route or road facility.

To plan and design the existing and new facilities of traffic operations on the road.

To make analysis of traffic patterns and trends on the road.

To do economic studies after estimating the highway user’s revenue.

The traffic volume study renders the following useful information.

Hourly, daily, yearly and season traffic volume, variations, volume and direction of traffic. Variation of vehicles flow on different parts of a road junction.

Proportion of cars, heavy vehicles, slow vehicles on different parts of road junction.