GoodVision Vs Manual Traffic Counters: Comparing User Experience on Traffic Surveys

Daniel Stofan
GoodVision
Published in
2 min readJun 9, 2020

Almost all traffic survey companies have previous experience with manual traffic counting. Many manual counters claim they can be extremely efficient with it, counting traffic manually from videos at 4x-6x, sometimes even 8x-16x speeds, which they claim is more cost-effective. What we think is that it is quite improbable to do that accurately.

Anyone who has ever seen a video running at 6x or more significant speed must admit that it is barely possible to spot all traffic objects on multiple movements and categorize them into the correct vehicle category. There are many areas where the user experience in manual traffic counting and GoodVision’s automated traffic collection using video analysis differs. So we decided to test these two methods and summarize the results in the article. Note: even if we tried to be as honest as possible, this is not an independent test. Anyhow, you can repeat this test yourself anytime at my.goodvisionlive.com.

Want to read a detailed comparison between GoodVision vs Manual Counters? Check the full article on our official blog:

https://blog.goodvisionlive.com/goodvision-vs-manual-traffic-counters-comparing-user-experience-on-traffic-surveys

Visit GoodVision’s website and the LinkedIn profile if you want to know more about what GoodVision does. If you’re going to try our traffic analytics platform for free, visit my.goodvisionlive.com.

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