By Andy Rush
Transportation Planner
KIPDA has been involved in all facets of traffic counting for many years, and staff continues to collect, report, and analyze traffic counts on a regular basis today. We use hundreds of traffic counts performed each year around this region by our partners ( such as the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, the Indiana Department of Transportation, and several other agencies) on a regular basis as part of our transportation planning efforts.
In addition to these counts from our planning partners, we collect dozens of traffic counts each year to fill in the gaps in the network where recent counts do not exist, to supplement ongoing planning efforts, and to assist local member governments in the region.
In order to better organize, display, and distribute this information from all of these different sources, KIPDA staff created on online tool on the KIPDA website that is available for anyone to use 24/7. The new site is at:
This tool is a map created using Google Maps that is backed by a database containing traffic counts. It is designed for easy use via any internet browser. The user of this new tool can simply zoom into the area they are interested in and click on one of the dots along the roadway representing an individual traffic count. Information about the count is then displayed, including the name of the road, the agency that counted at this location, the year of the count, and the corresponding 24-hour traffic volume.
There are currently about 3,200 unique traffic counts displayed on this new site. This includes counts in all nine counties in the KIPDA Region. New counts will be added and older counts will be replaced with new ones on a regular basis and as they are received by KIPDA.
For more information, call Andy Rush at (502) 266-6084 or email him at AndyH.Rush@ky.gov.
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