# 3:
Traffic Measurement System
General
Description of Need:
CJTF82 needs a means
of conducting traffic surveying to determine the impacts of local development,
impacts of IED emplacement on routes, and trafficability and freedom of
movement as judged by the number of vehicles using a route. The required data are the number of vehicles
passing a certain point over an extended period of time.
They would prefer to
avoid manual counting methods due to the personnel required to be diverted from
other missions. There is also the
concern of emplacing traditional pneumatic or IR traffic surveying systems in a
leave-behind mode due to the risks of those systems being tampered with to
serve as sources for IED components – and the CJTF cannot afford to leave
behind personnel to guard a commercial device.
The CJTF needs to
know if any readily available systems exist that would allow for:
1. Counting of vehicles passing a specific point
over an extended period of time,
2. Sufficient power to enable operations for up
to 7 days (threshold) between servicing,
3. Able to retrieve required data at the site
(threshold) or transmit data from the site to a central receiving point for data
(objective)
4. Not able to be readily exploited to be
harvested for IED initiation components
5. Relatively inexpensive
Any form of solution
(traffic monitoring systems, cameras, UGS, ground surveillance radar
approaches, etc) may prove potentially suitable.
