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Induction coils to track vehicles?
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not very well though, while the raw data can vary car to car, they only use a simple vehicle detection count, and they could technically distinguish between large trucks, trailers, busses and family cars, but not very well and it would be based on signal duration so the traffic flow speed would have to be known too. A small electric car might have a similar signature to a large diesel truck just based on the inductive mass, and a hatchback could have the same signal duration as a bus if it's in traffic.
There's no useful data there for deeper analysis or correlation other than "hmm, road use is up in this area, increase road maintenance there in the next budget" or, "hmm, that intersection upgrade downstream has caused more traffic than predicted upstream", or "hmm, the timing on these fixed intersection lights need to be re-assessed or upgraded to automatic lights"