Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council

Traffic and Accident Data

TRAFFIC DATA - Stockton Borough Council provides a service within the Network Safety Team for carrying out various Traffic Surveys.

Requests are received for this information from traffic engineers and consultants to enable in-depth studies to be undertaken for proposed developments, new road schemes, pedestrian crossings amongst other things. Members of the public, Councillors and Parish/Town Councils also request data due to concerns about vehicle speeds and the amount of traffic on certain roads where they feel safety could be an issue.

There are various types of manual and automatic surveys that can be carried out depending on the kind of investigation that is being studied, examples are as follows:

Speed surveys - to ascertain the speed that the majority of vehicles are travelling, the most common is the 85th percentile speed (the speed at which 85% of motorists travel at or below). This data is used as part of Cleveland Police's criteria to consider if Police Enforcement will be carried out.

Volumetric traffic flows - to find out how many vehicles are using a certain road and the peak times for traffic. This data is predominately used for proposed developments to see how the traffic flows may be affected by increased usage.

Junction Turning counts - this is a survey of all road user manoeuvres at a junction including pedestrians and cyclists. It is essential information for various junction improvements such as traffic lights.

Pedestrian/Vehicle counts (PV2) - this type of survey provides a calculated figure, which can be measured against set criteria. This is used as part of the process to decide if a pedestrian crossing or School Crossing Patrol should be implemented.

ROAD ACCIDENT DATA - Road accident data is provided to Stockton Borough Council, Network Safety Team from Cleveland Police, this data is analysed and forms the basis of many engineering and road safety schemes that are implemented with the aim of reducing the number of injury accidents on Stockton Boroughs roads. Elements of the road accident data information is of a confidential nature, however, we do provide a Road Casualty Review which summaries accident data. The Road Casualty Review document is published annually and runs to over 100 pages incorporating many interesting statistics and plans of current accident trends in the Borough. There are sections covering Overall totals, targets & trends - National & Regional comparisons - Casualty types - where accidents happen and what we are doing to reduce accidents.

The current report covers the year 2009. For further information regarding Traffic & Accident Data please contact us.