Elk Grove is a rapidly-growing suburb of Sacramento, California. As is common with suburban areas in California, it is primarily dependent upon automobiles for transportation of its citizens.
A tool used by many cities and counties for planning, designing, and maintaining safe transportation systems is traffic engineering, and where the primary mode of transport is the motor vehicle, traffic engineering is all about cars. In Elk Grove, the Traffic Engineering Section is part of the Department of Public Works. In other cities and counties, traffic engineering may similarly be carried out by a separate office or more generally by whatever public works department may have responsibility for the roadways.
One of the most important pieces of data that goes into traffic engineering is studying traffic volumes and accident statistics. The traffic volumes are both predicted for the purpose of planning and design new roadways, and measured on an ongoing basis in order to insure safe traffic flow and plan for corrections as needed.
Counting the number of Elk Grove auto accidents is not the best way to plan a road system — obviously, if it’s noticed that traffic accidents are occurring frequently at a particular intersection, then the local municipality may want to take quick action to improve the situation. But looking at traffic volume statistics can help identify future problem locations long before the accidents start to pile up, allowing the city time to install traffic signals or other traffic control devices, change the speed limits, add lanes if needed, or take other actions to forestall an increase in crashes.
Traffic volume statistics from August 2014 for major roadways in Elk Grove are listed below, and the City also provides a map showing traffic volumes. It’s interesting to note some of the patterns in these numbers, especially the fact that traffic flows are clearly not just back-and-forth. For example, in the first line of data — on Sheldon Road from the city limits to Bruceville Road, the average daily westbound traffic is more than 2.5 times as much as the average eastbound traffic. Clearly, people aren’t just driving from Point A to Point B and then back from Point B to Point A — traffic flows in more complicated patterns than this.
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Elk Grove Traffic Volume Statistics 2014
Sheldon Rd from City Limit to Bruceville Rd, Eastbound 2,900, Westbound 8,100, Total 11,000
Sheldon Rd from Bruceville Rd to SR‐99, Eastbound 9,100, Westbound 12,200, Total 21,300
Sheldon Rd from Sr‐99 to Power Inn Rd, Eastbound 13,700, Westbound 15,000, Total 28,700
Sheldon Rd from Power Inn Rd to Elk to Grove Florin Rd, Eastbound 11,800, Westbound 11,300, Total 23,100
Sheldon Rd from Elk Grove Florin Rd Waterman Rd, Eastbound 14,100, Westbound 7,600, Total 21,700
Laguna Bl from I‐5 Harbour to Point Dr, Eastbound 14,200, Westbound 14,100, Total 28,300
Laguna Bl from Harbour Point Dr to Franklin Bl, Eastbound 15,000, Westbound 19,600, Total 34,600
Laguna Bl from Franklin Bl to Bruceville Rd, Eastbound 20,200, Westbound 17,200, Total 37,400
Laguna Bl from Bruceville Rd to Laguna Springs Dr, Eastbound 21,000, Westbound 26,200, Total 47,200
Laguna Bl from Laguna Springs Dr to SR‐99, Eastbound 21,500, Westbound 23,300, Total 44,800
Bond Rd from SR‐99, Eastbound to Stockton Bl, Eastbound 19,100, Westbound 19,400, Total 38,500
Bond Rd from E Stockton Bl to Elk Grove Florin Rd, Eastbound 16,700, Westbound 18,100, Total 34,800
Bond Rd from Elk Grove Florin Rd to Waterman Rd, Eastbound 13,100, Westbound 11,500, Total 24,600
Bond Rd from Waterman R to Bradshaw Rd, Eastbound 4,000, Westbound 5,800, Total 9,800
Bond Rd from Bradshaw to Rd to Grant Line Rd, Eastbound 5,900, Westbound 5,300, Total 11,200
Elk Grove Bl from I‐5 Harbour Point Dr, Eastbound 12,100, Westbound 13,400, Total 25,500
Elk Grove Bl from Harbour Point Dr to Franklin Bl, Eastbound 10,500, Westbound 15,800, Total 26,300
Elk Grove Bl from Franklin Bl to Bruceville Rd, Eastbound 16,600, Westbound 16,600, Total 33,200
Elk Grove Bl from Bruceville Rd to Laguna Springs Dr, Eastbound 20,500, Westbound 23,100, Total 43,600
Elk Grove Bl from Laguna Springs Dr to SR‐99, Eastbound 22,400, Westbound 32,800, Total 55,200
Elk Grove Bl from SR‐99 to, Eastbound Stockton Bl, Eastbound 16,300, Westbound 10,700, Total 27,000
Elk Grove Bl from E Stockton Bl to Elk Grove Florin Rd, Eastbound 13,600, Westbound 12,400, Total 26,000
Elk Grove Bl from Elk Grove Florin Rd to Waterman Rd, Eastbound 8,600, Westbound 8,500, Total 17,100
Whitelock Pkwy from Franklin Bl to Franklin High Rd (W), Eastbound 5,700, Westbound 7,100, Total 12,800
Whitelock Pkwy from Franklin High Rd (W) to Bruceville Rd, Eastbound 8,400, Westbound 9,100, Total 17,500
Whitelock Pkwy from Bruceville Rd to Big Horn Bl, Eastbound 8,100, Westbound 3,600, Total 11,700
Kammerer Rd from Bruceville Rd to Promenade Pkwy, Eastbound 4,000, Westbound 3,200, Total 7,200
Grant Line Rd from Promenade Pkwy to E Stockton Bl, Eastbound 8,300, Westbound 9,800, Total 18,100
Grant Line Rd from E Stockton Bl to Waterman Rd, Eastbound 13,000, Westbound 9,400, Total 22,400
Grant Line Rd from Waterman Rd to Elk Grove Bl, Eastbound 9,400, Westbound 6,700, Total 16,100
Harbour Point Dr from Laguna Bl to Galen Dr, Northbound 5,500, Southbound 7,300, Total 12,800
Harbour Point Dr from Galen Dr to Elk Grove Blvd, Northbound 4,300, Southbound 4,000, Total 8,300
Franklin Bl from City Limit to Big Hron Bl, Northbound 10,000, Southbound 9,900, Total 19,900
Franklin Bl from Big Horn Bl to Laguna Bl, Northbound 12,900, Southbound 11,900, Total 24,800
Franklin Bl from Laguna Bl to Elk Grove Bl, Northbound 9,800, Southbound 10,400, Total 20,200
Franklin Bl from Elk Grove Bl to Whitelock Pkwy, Northbound 9,700, Southbound 10,000, Total 19,700
Willard Pkwy from Whitelock Pkwy to Bilby Rd, Northbound 3,700, Southbound 3,100, Total 6,800
Bruceville Rd from City Limit to Big Horn Bl, Northbound 13,400, Southbound 17,600, Total 31,000
Bruceville Rd from Big Horn Bl to Laguna Bl, Northbound 12,600, Southbound 7,100, Total 19,700
Bruceville Rd from Laguna Bl to Elk Grove Bl, Northbound 12,700, Southbound 15,300, Total 28,000
Bruceville Rd from Elk Grove Bl to Whitelock Pkwy, Northbound 10,700, Southbound 11,700, Total 22,400
Bruceville Rd from Whitelock Pkwy to Bilby Rd, Northbound 3,900, Southbound 4,700, Total 8,600
Bruceville Rd from Bilby Rd to Kammerer Rd, Northbound 3,300, Southbound 3,900, Total 7,200
Big Horn Bl from Franklin Bl to Bruceville Rd, Eastbound 7,100, Westbound 7,100, Total 14,200
Big Horn Bl from Brauceville Rd to Laguna Bl, Eastbound 7,600, Westbound 6,900, Total 14,500
Big Horn Bl from Laguna Bl to Elk Grove bl, Northbound 8,000, Southbound 7,500, Total 15,500
Big Horn Bl from Elk Grove Bl to Whitelock Pkwy, Northbound 5,400, Southbound 6,000, Total 11,400
Lewis Stein Rd from Sheldon Rd to Big Horn Bl, Northbound 5,500, Southbound 4,400, Total 9,900
Laguna Springs Dr from Laguna Bl to Elk Grove Bl, Northbound 5,900, Southbound 6,400, Total 12,300
Laguna Springs Dr from Elk Grove Bl to Lotz Pkwy, Northbound 3,300, Southbound 2,500, Total 5,800
E Stockton Bl from Sheldon Rd to Bond Rd, Northbound 3,500, Southbound 2,700, Total 6,200
E Stockton Bl from Bond Rd to Elk Grove Bl, Northbound 3,300, Southbound 4,100, Total 7,400
E Stockton Bl from Elk Grove Florin Rd to Grant Line Rd, Northbound 4,600, Southbound 2,800, Total 7,400
Power Inn Rd from Geneva Point Dr to Sheldon Rd, Northbound 5,400, Southbound 4,600, Total 10,000
Elk Grove Florin Rd from Calvine Rd to Sheldon Rd, Northbound 15,000, Southbound 15,400, Total 30,400
Waterman Rd from Sheldon Rd to Bond Rd, Northbound 5,900, Southbound 4,800, Total 10,700
Bradshaw Rd from Sheldon Rd to Bond Rd, Northbound 5,200, Southbound 5,200, Total 10,400
Bradshaw Rd from Bond Rd to Elk Grove Bl, Northbound 4,300, Southbound 4,400, Total 8,700