(ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH JOURNAL, 2017) Hassan Shuiabu Abdulrahman; A. A. Almusawi; Abubakar, Mahmud
Different methods of estimating macroscopic traffic properties is expected to have varying results
even when they are carried out on the same road and during the same time interval. A comparative
assessment was carried out between traffic data collected at a point and that collected over a short section;
Moving car observer method(MCO). Student’s t-test was used to evaluate both data and it was observed
that there was no significant difference between them. The MCO method correlates well with conventional
data collection method and it can be used as a substitute for it, assuming conventional data collection
method is true
