Appendix F - Site Access Advice

                                                               Traffic Analysis and Reporting System                                                                        TARS
                                                      Report Notes for Annual Volume Report
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Annual Volume Report                                                            Growth Percentage
Displays AADT history with hourly, daily and weekly                             Represents the increase or decrease in AADT, using a
patterns by Stream in addition to annual data for AADT                          exponential fit over the previous 1, 5 or 10 year period.
figures with 1 year, 5 year and 10 year growth rates.
                                                                                Hour, Day & Week Averages
Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT)                                             The amount of traffic on the road network will vary depending
Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT) is the number of vehicles passing           on the time of day, the day of the week and the week of the
a point on a road in a 24 hour period, averaged over a calendar year.           year. The ebb and flow of traffic travelling through a site over
                                                                                a period of time forms a pattern. The Hour, Day and Week
AADT History                                                                    Averages are then used in the calculation of AADT.
Displays the years when traffic data was collected at this count site.
                                                                                Road Section
Area                                                                            Is the Gazetted road from which the traffic data is collected. Each
For administration purposes the Department of Transport and                     Road Section is given a code, allocated sequentially in Gazettal
Main Roads has divided Queensland into 12 Districts. The Area                   Direction. Larger roads are broken down into sections and
field in TSDM reports displays the District Name and Number.                    identified by an ID code with a suffix for easier data collection and
   District Name District                                                       reporting (eg. 10A, 10B, 10C). Road Sections are then broken
                                                                                into AADT Segments which are determined by traffic volume.
   Central West District         401
   Darling Downs District        402
   Far North District            403                                            Site
   Fitzroy District              404                                            The unique identifier and description of the physical
   Mackay/Whitsunday District    405                                            location of a traffic counting device. Sites are
   Metropolitian District        406                                            located at a Through Distance along a Road Section.
   North Coast District          407
   North West District           409
   Northern District             408                                            Stream
   South Coast District          410                                            The lane in which the traffic is travelling in. This report
   South West District           411                                            provides data for the combined flow of traffic in both directions.
   Wide Bay/Burnett District     412
                                                                                Thru Dist or TDist
Avg Week Day                                                                    The distance from the beginning of the Road Section, in kilometres.
Average daily traffic volume during the week days, Monday to Friday.
                                                                                Type
Avg Weekend Day                                                                 There are two types of traffic counting sites, Permanent
Average daily traffic volume during                                             and Coverage. Permanent means the traffic counting
the weekend, Saturday and Sunday.                                               device is in place 24/7. Coverage means the traffic
                                                                                counting device is in place for a specified period of time.
Calendar
Days on which traffic data was collected are highlighted in green.              Year
                                                                                Is the current year for the report. Where an AADT Year record
Gazettal Direction                                                              is missing a traffic count has not been conducted, for that year.
The Gazettal Direction is the direction of the traffic flow.                    Copyright
It can be easily recognised by referring to the name of the                     Copyright The State of Queensland (Department of Transport and Main Roads) 2013
road eg. Road Section: 10A Brisbane - Gympie denotes                            Licence
that the gazettal direction is from Brisbane to Gympie.                         http://creativecommons.org/licences/by-nd/3.0/au
   G   Traffic flowing in Gazettal Direction                                    This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC BY-ND) Licence. To
   A   Traffic flowing against Gazettal Direction                               attribute this material, cite State of Queensland (Department of Transport and Main Roads) 2013
   B   The combined traffic flow in both Directions