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pems-typical-weekday

Generates typical weekday summaries of Caltrans PeMS Data. For transportation planning purposes, we seek to understand "typical" traffic conditions, which we define here to occur Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays in the months of March, April, May, September, October, and November. Methods herein strive to process the PeMS data to inform estimates of typical weekday travel conditions over time.

The scripts in src directory processes a year's worth of data and then combines the annual summaries into a single database. The data is available in the pems-typical-weekday folder on Box. The data is presented via Tableau (see the .twb files in the Summaries directory) both hourly dashboard and by (groups of hours) time period dashboard.

To use the Tableau workbooks, first download the hourly or time period data files from the pems-typical-weekday folder here. Then point the Tableau workbooks to local copies of the CSV file, rather than the data extract/csv my files point to (e.g., M:\Data\Traffic\PeMS\pems_period.tde or E:/Box/Share Data/pems-typical-weekday/pems_period.csv).

Data Dictionary

Column Description
station PeMS Station ID. An integer value that uniquely indenties the Station Metadata. Use this value to 'join' other PeMS clearinghouse files that contain Station Metadata.
Vehicle.Class (only in truck files) Vehicle classification. Possible values: 1 = 0-8 ft, 2 = 8-20 ft, 3 = 2 Axle, 4T SU, 4 = Bus, 5 = 2 Axle,6T SU, 6 = 3 Axle SU, 7 = 4+ Axle SU, 8 = < 4 Axle ST, 9 = 5 Axle ST, 10 = 6+ Axle ST, 11 = < 5 Axle MT, 12 = 6 Axle MT, 13 = 7+ Axle MT, 14 = User-Def, 15 = Unknown
district Caltrans district number.
route Route number.
direction Direction of travel. One of N, S, E, or W.
type Lane type. Possible values: CD = Coll/Dist. CH = Conventional Highway. FF = Freeway-Freeway Connector. FR = Off Ramp. HV = HOV. ML = Mainline. OR = On ramp.
lanes Total number of lanes.
latitude Station latitude.
longitude Station longitude.
state_pm State postmile.
abs_pm Absolute postmile.
time_period Time periods. See MTC model time periods
year
median_flow
avg_flow
sd_flow
median_speed
avg_speed
sd_speed
median_occup
avg_occup
sd_occupancy
days_observed

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