JAMAR Technologies TRAX Apollyon, Руководство пользователя

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Chapter 1 — Introduction to the TRAX Apollyon
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 Apol-
lyon 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