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Florida traffic counts next to a parcel: reading FDOT's AADT for a site
The number you want is FDOT's AADT, annual average daily traffic: the vehicles that pass a point on an average day of the year. FDOT publishes it for each counted road segment on Florida Traffic Online, free, and posts the year's counts by April of the next. Read the segment in front of the parcel, check its year, and compare it with the roads around it.
What AADT measures
FDOT's glossary defines AADT as the average daily traffic for an entire year, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It is a yearly figure built from counts, not a count of one day. FDOT's traffic data page says it runs around 300 continuous counting stations that report every day, and its districts run short counts at thousands of other sites.
Beside the count, FDOT publishes factors for each segment. The one that matters most for a site is the truck factor: the share of that traffic that is trucks. On the 2025 counts in our layer, its median is 7.1%.
Where to look it up
- Florida Traffic Online. FDOT's map, at tdaappsprod.dot.state.fl.us/fto, shows each counting site and its history. It is the place for the official figure and its past years.
- The segment, not the road. A road is split into segments between named points, and each has its own count. The segment that fronts the parcel can differ a great deal from the next one past an interchange.
- The year. FDOT collects from January to December and posts the annual statistics by April. As of today, its page says the 2025 data is available.
How the counts look on our map
Turn on Traffic counts (AADT) under Roads and schools. Each counted segment is drawn in one of four colours and labelled with its count. Tap close to the line and the popup lists its count, its year, FDOT's roadway number, the points where the segment begins and ends, and the truck factor.
| Colour on the map | Vehicles a day | 2025 segments |
|---|---|---|
| Light blue | under 10,000 | 11,486 |
| Amber | 10,000 to 29,999 | 6,762 |
| Orange | 30,000 to 59,999 | 2,557 |
| Red | 60,000 or more | 807 |
Counted from the layer's 103,662 features, fetched from FDOT on 24 October 2026. The 2025 median is 9,000 vehicles a day; the busiest segment carries 336,000. The state highway layer beside it names the interstate, US or state route each road is.
Using a count for a commercial site
The roll codes what each parcel is used for, and the uses that live on passing traffic are many: 2,909 service stations, 5,520 drive-in restaurants, 9,262 other restaurants, 46,436 one-story stores and 86,012 vacant commercial parcels statewide. For any of them, three readings from the map go together:
- Which road the frontage is on. A corner lot may front a red segment on one side and an unmeasured side street on the other. Its access may be only from the quiet one.
- The count against its neighbours. Compare the segment with the next ones along the road and with the cross street. A step down past an intersection tells you where the traffic turns off.
- The trend. Open the site on Florida Traffic Online and read the past years. A road that has climbed for five years and one that has fallen tell different stories at the same count.
Then read the parcel itself: the zoning and future land use, the building's size and year, the sales, and who owns it. Researching a commercial parcel's owner.
Where it stops
- Five years drawn at once. Our layer holds FDOT's 2021 to 2025 counts, and 13,958 of its 28,604 segments carry all five, drawn on top of one another. The colour and the tap show one of them with its year: when the year is not 2025, read the latest on Florida Traffic Online.
- Roads FDOT does not count. FDOT describes its figures as traffic information for the State Highway System. Many county and city streets have no segment; ask the county's traffic office or the area's planning organization.
- Vehicles are not visitors. AADT counts what passes. It says nothing about turning movements, speed or how many stop.
- Construction and detours. A year with a closed lane or a detour nearby can read high or low; compare it with the years around it.
On Map Views
Open a commercial parcel and turn on the traffic and state highway layers over the county's aerial. The report beside it gives the use code, building square feet and year built, the zoning code and its jurisdiction, future land use, flood zone, values and sales, and the owner with its Sunbiz filing. Write the counts you read into the parcel's notes, so the comparison stays with the site.
FDOT's Transportation Data and Analytics office is the authority on traffic counts; its Florida Traffic Online is the official place to read them. Our layer is a copy of FDOT's published AADT segments, provided as FDOT publishes them.