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Historically, the traffic engineer has practiced his profession in anything but an oasis of instrumentation. About the only tools he had were simple counters for checking the number of vehicles, crude trap-type devices for checking speed, and a few specialpurpose survey devices. In the late nineteen-forties somewhat more sophisticated instruments began to appear, particularly with respect to operational equipment for traffic-control systems.
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Barker, J.L. (1965). Instrumentation for the Traffic Engineer. In: Horton, T.R. (eds) Traffic Control. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1722-7_2
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