BRITAIN’S TRAFFIC
CENSUS BEING TAKEN.
AN ELABORATE SYSTEM.
(British Official Wireless.) Rugby, August 10.
Beginning early on Monday morning, the Ministry of Transport has arranged for the most elaborate traffic census ever undertaken in Britain. It will cover every first class road and at between 4000 and 5000 selected points everything passing, lorries, omnibuses, private cars, cycles and pedestrians, each day next week will be counted by 10,000 enumerators working in relays. The Ministry holds a traffic census every three years, but for reasons of economy the one due last year was not held. The purpose of the census is to find out how and where the traffic has increased since 1931. An average weight is assigned to each class of vehicle so that it is possible to estimate not only the volume and the density of the traffic, but the weight per traffic yard. When the figures have been analysed the Ministry' will be in a position to determine how far the road-building programmes are keeping pace with the increase in traffic.
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Southland Times, Issue 25361, 13 August 1935, Page 7
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173BRITAIN’S TRAFFIC Southland Times, Issue 25361, 13 August 1935, Page 7
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