Software Downloads for MnDOT, Transportation Data Forecast and Analysis (TDA) Section

Installation of the .Net Framework 4.5 full version is required.

If you are not a MnDOT employee, please obtain a proper license for the software provided below by contacting the Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC), Univeristy of Minnsota, Twin Cities. For on-line licensing, please visit, OTC website. Thank you!
Dr. Taek M. Kwon.

Software Tool for Retrieving Basic RTMC Traffic-Data (vol, occ, spd) : getTraf_data

getTraf_data: getTraf_data-V1.0.msi ( released on July 13, 2021); A simple utility tool for retrieving basic traffic data (vol, occ, and spd) from the MnDOT RTMC Mayfly server; it is provided for general public or anybody within MnDOT that wish to study traffic data at few locations. This software is extremely simple and easy to use; all data are outputed in text files with easy-to-read CSV (Comma Separated Values) formats and the column headings are provided on the top row. User Manual (released on July 22, 2021).

WIM Software Packages: BullReporter, BullConverter

BullReporter: BullReporter V4.4.msi ( released on Aug 12, 2019), Integrated reporting and data analysis tools for MnDOT WIM csv files. BullReporter User Guide .

BullConverter: BullConverterV4_25.msi (released on Mar 31, 2018) It converts raw WIM data from multiple vendors to standard uniform csv files. BullConverter User Manual .

Class-Definition File Edit Guide : ClassDefEditGuide.pdf (released on Dec, 2016), Both BullConverter and BullReporter provide vehicle classification through user selected classification schemes, and this documentation provides information on how to edit the class-definition file and and develop your own classification scheme.

Software Packages for Generating MnDOT Continuous Count (CC) and Short-Duration Count (SC) Data from RTMC Traffic Detectors

CC-TDA: CC-TDA_V1.2 (released on 9/25/2020) This tool generates Continous Count (CC) data for MnDOT TDA for defined stations. Its output is generated in hourly volumes (24 data points) per day for each detector and formatted in FHWA .VOL files. For computation, it directly connects to the RTMC IRIS server, downloads the required binary traffic data, and then computes the CC data accoding to the user-supplied station definition file. This version does not perform any data imputation, which is the only differencce from ATR-TDA2.
Please refer to CC-TDA_V1 user manual (released on 2/19/2020) to learn detailed informaiton.

ATR-TDA2: ATR-TDA2-V1.5 (released on 9/25/2020) This tool generates hourly volume data for stations defined by the MnDOT TDA, and it utilizes spatial and temporal inferences for imputing missing values to improve data quality. This tool directly connects to the RTMC IRIS server, downloads the required binary traffic data, and then computes the ATR data accoding to the user-supplied station definition file that includes definitions of primary, secondary, tertiary stations per station. User Manual (revised 7/23/2021)

SC-TDA3: SC-TDA3-V1.1 (released on 6/23/2022) It produces MnDOT TDA's Short-duration Count (SC) data from the RTMC traffic detectors accoding to the user-supplied station defines file. It performs both spatial and temporal imputations to improve the data quality. This new version allows for users to select the server from a choice of Mayfly or Trafdat. Its improvement also includes more thorough check and detection of syntax violations from the defines file. User Manual (revised on 7/15/2021)

SC-COVID: SC-COVID-V1.1 (released on 1/5/2021) This software is identical to SC-TDA2, except that it does not exclude daily volumes from its AADT computation if they fall below 20% of the arithmetic average. It rather exclude daily volumes if they are below or equal to the user set threshold. For example, if a user sets the threshold at 5, only the daily volumes greater than 5 will be included in the AADT computation. This approach allows experimentation of different levels of daily volume thresholds, providing a simple low-volume filtering of the data. This version was created to provide a means to include the low-volumes experienced during the Minnesota Covid-19 lockdown (March/April 2020) in MnDOT's annual AADT computations.

Software Package for retrieving volume, occupancy, speed, classification, and detector diagnoistics information from RTMC Traffic Sensors

detHealth_app (uses Mayfly): detHealth_app_V3.1 (release date: 7/26/2021) This is an application software pacakge developed for retrieving and exploring detector-health paramters, r_nodes, volumes, speed, and length-based classification from the RTMC detector data. This version no longer requires connection to the detector-health database server and can run by itself from any location. It provides graph and csv outputs for the retrieved data, and includes output capability of *.VOL *.SPD and *.LEN files that conform FHWA TMG-2016 formats. It also provides navigation and data exploration tools for the MnDOT's Short-Duration Count stations in metro highways. It uses the RTMC Mayfly data server. V3.1: added an option "to produce a separate file for each station" in the Bulk FHWA tab detHealth_app V3.1 User Manual - updated on 7/28/2021

detHealth_app old version (before Mayfly, i.e., Trafdat): detHealth_app_V2.9 (release date: 9/25/2020)