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Chapter 1 — Introduction to the TRAX Apollyon Plus II
Starting a New Count
With
Count
highlighted on the Main Menu, press the DO key.
You have two options for the type
of data you want to collect –
Basic
or
Volume Only
.
So what do we mean when we say
‘Basic’ data and ‘Volume Only’
data?
Basic data means that the data you are collecting in the field with the
Apollyon Plus II is in its most basic format – a time-stamp recording for
every single axle that goes over the road tubes you have put down. (Some
people refer to this type of data as Raw data or Time-stamped data – we
call it Basic data. They all essentially mean the same thing.) Depending
on the tube layout you select (we'll cover this shortly) Basic data can be
processed to provide data for volume, speed, classification & gap, all from
the same original file.
With Volume Only data, as the name implies, you can only get volume
information. This format also does not time-stamp every axle, but rather
sorts and stores the volume data into specific interval times.
In general, we recommend that you use the Basic format whenever you
can. There are several reasons for this, the most important of which is that
if something goes wrong with one of your counts,
it is much easier to de-
termine why (and potentially fix the problem without having to re-do
the count) if the data is collected in the Basic format.
There is a third option listed on this menu,
Tubes
, that can be used to view
the strength of the pulses that are coming in on the road tubes. We'll learn
more about this feature a little later on in the tutorial.
With
Basic
highlighted on the screen, press the DO key.
BASIC VOLUME ONLY
TUBES EXIT
Basic Data
Press DO to select
Count Menu with
Basic
highlighted
Summary of Contents for TRAX Apollyon Plus II
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