Blackwood Traffic Intensity

[Tingle]

I thought people might find this interesting, especially for cops and robbers looking to refine their strategies. It might also be useful for layout changes in the future. I recorded the traffic over a period of a few hours giving me 11,047 (X,Y) coordinates.

Obviously, the brighter the white, the more traffic you can expect... I would say it is indubitably apparent where most of the traffic is concentrated!

Most intense point of traffic:

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In terms of the most intense point of traffic, we have (-544.315, 146.9655) as the mean (X,Y) coordinate which is the red glowing square in the diagram below:


I didn't save the original and forgot to include it in the above. Hence, this diagram has been quickly created which is why it looks different to the above.

To be honest with you though, I don't even know if it valid to average X and Y coordinates and use the mean as a way of measuring the most intense point of traffic.

Data set available upon request.

[[TC]►Ash◄]

That's very cool! Great work getting that data and portraying it how you have

[SO•Huski]

I really like that as a picture! It looks really cool tbh. Even though on the outside it does give good information, would love to see this done at peak-times over every track twice, then it'd give a good idea of how it varies at peak but also how it varies over 2 rotations.

[[TC] Kyle]

Looks amazing That's gonna be useful for a lot of people

[Tingle]

(2017-04-29 07:58)Huski Wrote:  I really like that as a picture! It looks really cool tbh. Even though on the outside it does give good information, would love to see this done at peak-times over every track twice, then it'd give a good idea of how it varies at peak but also how it varies over 2 rotations.

I agree, it would be worth doing it a few times over to get a better understanding of the traffic overall.

[[TC]►Cam◄]

Very nice

[SO•Huski]

(2017-04-29 10:10)Tingle Wrote:  

(2017-04-29 07:58)Huski Wrote:  I really like that as a picture! It looks really cool tbh. Even though on the outside it does give good information, would love to see this done at peak-times over every track twice, then it'd give a good idea of how it varies at peak but also how it varies over 2 rotations.

I agree, it would be worth doing it a few times over to get a better understanding of the traffic overall.

Exactly, it'd show the TC HWA's where to put roadworks