Before
01 / 04Survey station selected on a homogeneous road section
Stations are placed away from junction influence, towns and toll plazas unless those are the subject. Location, chainage and photos are recorded.
- Chainage and GPS
- Station photos
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Field counts and roadside interviews for highway, urban and toll studies
Bharat Survey is a traffic survey company in India that supplies the field manpower, supervision and data systems behind road project studies. DPR consultants, EPC firms, state PWDs and urban authorities use us for classified volume counts, origin-destination interviews, turning movement counts and roadside surveys, collected to IRC methods with GPS-stamped shift records and clean data files that drop straight into traffic analysis.
- IRC-aligned vehicle classification
- 24-hour shift rosters with supervisor checks
- OD interviews on a tablet, offline
- Hourly data files with station IDs
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2,184
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1,962
Enumerated
1,871
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Shift
Location will be shared
Only during your shift, with your supervisor. Stops at ‘End shift’.
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Classified volume countOrigin-destination surveyTurning movement countAxle load surveyATCC and videographyWillingness to payRoad inventorySpeed and delay
Why the data matters
Traffic data sets the size of almost everything in a road project: number of lanes, pavement thickness, toll revenue, junction design and the economic case. IRC:SP:19, the Indian Roads Congress manual for survey, investigation and preparation of road projects, treats classified traffic counts as the basic study, with origin-destination and axle load surveys alongside for most highway projects.
A few missed night hours or a misclassified truck category can carry through to the design traffic in million standard axles. That is why we treat traffic survey as data engineering, not headcount: shifts are rostered, supervisors check each station, and every file carries station, date, hour and enumerator IDs.
Also collected on request
- Road user satisfaction survey
- Road inventory survey services
- Speed and delay runs
- Pedestrian and parking counts
- Road safety audit inventory survey data collection
- Toll plaza queue studies
Counts
How a typical 7-day, 24-hour count is run.
Shifts
02 / 04Enumerators counting vehicles by class in 8-hour shifts
Three shifts per day with overlap at handover. Vehicle classes follow the project ToR, typically aligned to IRC categories, tallied in 15-minute or hourly intervals.
- 15-minute intervals
- Handover overlap
Night
03 / 04Supervisor checking a night shift count station
Night shifts get lighting, safety vests and unannounced supervisor visits with GPS-stamped check-ins. Night data is where weak surveys fail.
- Unannounced checks
- Safety kit
After
04 / 04Hourly traffic count data compiled and validated
Counts are compiled, checked for gaps and unusual hourly profiles, converted to PCU where required, and delivered with station metadata.
- Gap checks
- PCU conversion
Count types
CVC survey agency work
Mid-block classified counts for 3 or 7 days, 24 hours, at homogeneous sections of highways and arterial roads.
Intersection turning movement survey
Counts of each movement at junctions by vehicle class, usually in peak periods, for junction design and signal timing.
Traffic volume count survey agency
Shorter volume counts for urban corridors, access roads and development traffic impact studies.
Traffic count survey
Manual tallies, handheld counters or video counting depending on location, duration and budget.
Traffic census survey agency
Periodic counts on a network of stations for state road agencies, repeated in the same seasons for comparability.
Toll traffic study consultant support
Counts at existing plazas and diversion routes, plus interviews that feed toll revenue estimates for the lead consultant.
Interviews
OD surveys stop a sample of vehicles and ask where the trip started, where it ends, what is carried and why.
OD survey services India projects need
Roadside interviews are done with police support where required, at a safe lay-by, on a sample of vehicles by class. Enumerators record origin, destination, commodity, load, trip purpose and frequency on an offline tablet form with location codes from a pre-loaded zone list.
Zone lists are built from the project influence area, so trips code consistently for the traffic model.
- Pre-loaded zone lists
- Sampling by vehicle class
- Commodity and load
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Willingness to pay survey toll road studies
For toll projects, the same interview can include stated preference questions on route choice at different toll rates, or willingness to pay for time saved, designed with the lead consultant's modeller.
- Stated preference sets
- Route choice
- Value of time inputs
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- Partial
- Declined
- No contact
- Home locked
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What we believe about traffic data
Pavement
An axle load survey weighs a sample of commercial vehicles to estimate vehicle damage factors for pavement design. IRC:SP:19 calls for it to run alongside the classified count. Portable axle load pads or weigh-in-motion equipment are operated by trained teams, with police assistance to stop vehicles safely.
Our part and the equipment
We provide field manpower, supervision and data recording; weighing equipment is supplied by the lead consultant or a specialist equipment partner, with calibration records attached to the dataset.
Technology
Automatic traffic counter classifier survey
Automatic traffic counter classifiers, radar or video-analytics systems count and classify continuously. They reduce night-shift risk but need calibration and manual validation samples. We support installation, monitoring and validation counts with an equipment partner.
- Continuous 24-hour coverage
- Manual validation samples
- Equipment via partner
Manual classified counts
Trained enumerators with tally sheets or handheld counters. Flexible and low-setup, but quality depends entirely on supervision, especially at night.
- Fast to deploy
- Supervisor check-ins
- 15-minute intervals
Videography with manual extraction
Cameras record the section; counts are extracted in the office. Good for complex junctions and audit trails, at the cost of storage and extraction time.
- Re-checkable footage
- Junction friendly
- Longer processing
3,000
Target homes
2,184
Visits
1,962
Enumerated
1,871
Verified
Daily verified recordsLast 12 days
Planning
A typical mix of surveys requested in highway DPR terms of reference. Always follow your ToR.
| Survey | Typical duration | Main use |
|---|---|---|
| Classified volume count | 7 days × 24 hours per station (3 days at some) | AADT, lane requirement, design traffic |
| Origin-destination | 24 hours or as per ToR at selected stations | Traffic model, diversion, toll forecast |
| Turning movement count | Peak hours at junctions | Junction design |
| Axle load | 24–48 hours with CVC | Vehicle damage factor, pavement design |
| Speed and delay | Peak and off-peak runs | Travel time, economic analysis |
Durations are indicative of common ToR practice under IRC:SP:19, not a substitute for the contract.
Not the right fit if
- Preparing the full DPR or traffic forecast model
- Owning ATCC or weigh-in-motion equipment
- Pavement structural evaluation
- Signing reports as a MoRTH-empanelled consultant
A good fit if
- DPR consultants short of reliable field teams
- Multi-station counts with night supervision
- Roadside OD and willingness-to-pay interviews
- DPR survey services and road survey services with clean data files
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Straight answers to the questions people ask most about this topic.
How is classified volume count survey done?
Enumerators at a station on a homogeneous road section count every passing vehicle by class, direction and time interval, usually 15 minutes or an hour, across three 8-hour shifts for 3 or 7 days. Supervisors check stations including at night, and counts are compiled into hourly and daily volumes and converted to PCU.
What is the traffic survey cost per location?
There is no fixed rate. It depends on survey type, duration, number of shifts, vehicle classes, remoteness, police support and whether equipment such as ATCC or axle load pads is needed. A 7-day, 24-hour count costs very differently from a 2-hour peak turning count. We quote per scope.
Do you follow IRC guidelines?
Yes. Survey procedures follow IRC:SP:19 and the vehicle classes and durations in your terms of reference. Where the ToR and a manual differ, the ToR prevails and we note it in the method statement.
Can you do surveys across several states at once?
Yes. Stations are planned with local enumerators recruited near each location and supervisors rotating across stations. The data format stays identical everywhere so the lead consultant can combine it directly.
In what format is traffic survey data delivered?
Excel or CSV files by station, direction, date and interval with vehicle classes as columns, plus station metadata, photos, shift rosters and supervisor check logs. Formats can match the consultant's analysis templates.
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