Have you noticed how heatwaves are quietly changing the way our cities move?
Fewer people on the streets during the hottest hours. More runners and cyclists at sunrise or later in the evening. More people working from home, staying indoors, or reducing discretionary travel. These aren’t isolated observations but signs of people adapting their daily routines to cope with extreme temperatures.
Heatwaves don’t just reduce traffic, they reshape it. Instead of the traditional morning and evening peaks, we see flatter daytime traffic, more activity during cooler hours, and fewer people walking and cycling at midday.
As heatwaves become more frequent, understanding these changing mobility patterns will be key to building more resilient transport networks. By collecting continuous traffic data, local authorities can monitor changes in travel demand, commuting behaviour, and active travel, providing the evidence needed to plan and act for a changing climate.
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Whether you need to collect classified vehicle counts, active travel data, or multimodal traffic data, our flexible range of data collection systems can help.
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