Lee Engineering and Works Consulting to assist ADOT in Regional Traffic Counting Policy

November 22, 1999 -- Phoenix Arizona -- Lee Engineering, LLC (www.leeengineering.com) announced today that Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) selected the team of Lee Engineering and Works Consulting (www.gisworks.com) to analyze the status of regional (i.e. rural) traffic counting policy in Arizona.

The study will establish the first comprehensive effort to collect traffic count data in rural Arizona since the Statewide Long-term Improved Management (SLIM) program swept through state government nearly 10 years ago.  A public relations effort to re-establish the importance of counting in transportation planning efforts is integral to the study.  Recommendations are expected to assist the local governments in developing self-sustaining counting programs that meet the needs of air quality, highway performance, and pavement management systems.

The project will culminate in a data collection policy that recognizes the limited resources of local governments yet satisfies the mandates passed down by the HPMS program and practical planning methodology.

This project is will progress in tandem with a ADOT Data Section effort to contract for the blanket re-counting of the old Federal-Aid Secondary (FAS) road system.  Twelve hundred (1200) locations in Arizona are being counted for ADOT as a one-time effort to do counting on these roads for the first time since 1991.

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