Road Traffic Surveys

Purpose of the road traffic survey

Personal data is processed as part of the localised and short-term traffic camera installation in order to identify turning movement counts at two locations in connection with road safety improvement scheme design and traffic management. The counts will be of vehicles, pedestrians & cyclists. The Council is obliged to protect such personal data in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018 and the provisions contained in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The purpose of the processing of personal data under this project is to:

• get accurate data in relation to traffic, cyclist and pedestrian movement at the specified locations
• to inform the correct design process
• to improve safety for all road users at these locations

One traffic survey camera will be installed in sixteen locations as set out on the table below. These include the main junctions in each area. The surveys will be carried out on one weekday for a duration of 12 hours from 07:00-19:00 during the last two weeks of Aug 2024.

GPS Coordinates for the camera locations are shown in the table below.

Survey Type	Ref	Location	Coordinates
Video Junction Turning Count (JTC) including pedestrian movement	1	Garrihys Cross, Doolin	53.007930	-9.353503
	2	Fitz Cross, Doolin	53.016017	-9.377559
	3	R477/N67 Junction, Ballyvaughan	53.115646	-9.149409
	4	Corofin/Gort Road Junction	52.944634	-9.063580
	5	N67 Kincora Road Lisdoonvarna, Main Street	53.029173	-9.289894
Video Junction Turning Counts (JTC)	6	O'Donohues Pub, Fanore	53.101921	-9.296897
	7	Corkscrew Hill near Ballyvaughan	53.070402	-9.188794
	8	Lemanagh Junction	52.986941	-9.139676
	9	Ballinalacken Junction	53.046263	-9.341324
	10	Kilnaboy	52.969786	-9.085308
	11	N67/L1108 Lahinch Road	52.938388	-9.318118
	12	R478/L 1044	52.947247	-9.358468
	13	R478 Outside Liscannor	52.954195	-9.420666
	14	R478/ L5142 Pollboy Junction	52.980438	-9.422199
	15	N67 Toovahera Cross	53.041220	-9.264617
	16	Kilfenora	52.990413	-9.215158

Legal basis for the processing of personal data for the road traffic survey

The legal basis to process personal data in the case of the road traffic survey is the following:

• Article 6(1) e of the GDPR - the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of an official authority vested in Clare County Council. The official authority in this case derives from the Roads Act, 1993 - Section 13 - Responsibility of road authorities for the maintenance and construction of local roads and Section 78 - Powers of inspection & survey.
• The processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation to which the Council is subject, namely, Health, Safety and Welfare at Work Acts.

The categories of personal data concerned

Personal data processed in the traffic survey is:

• Incidence of cyclists, pedestrians, and vehicles. Images of cyclists and pedestrians and vehicles will be processed at a distance, angle and resolution that would prevent individuals and vehicle registration numbers from being identifiable.

Processing and recipients of the data

Access to the data is limited to the company engaged by Clare County Council to do the survey, will record images of traffic (including pedestrian and cyclist traffic) such that individual persons are not identifiable. No personal data will be provided to the Council and anonymised traffic movement data only will be provided to the Council.

Third party access to personal data is not allowed, except in the very limited circumstances permitted by law. Access requests shall be processed in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018, the GDPR and the Council’s data protection policies and procedures.

There are no plans to transfer the personal data to a third country or international organisation.

The retention period for the data

Clare County Council subscribes to the national policy for retention and destruction of Local Authority records.

Data subjects have a range of data rights

• Right of access by the data subject
• Right to rectifcation
• Right to erasure ('right to be forgotten')
• Right to restriction of processing
• Right to data portability
• Right to object and automated individual decision-making

The council’s data access request policy and procedures are available on www.clarecoco.ie

or please contact dpa@clarecoco.ie

The right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority

If you are not satisfied with a decision on your request for access to data or have concerns about personal data processing, you have the right to make a complaint to the

Data Protection Commission,

Canal House

Station Road

Portarlington

Co Laois

Ireland

Before doing so it is recommended that you contact Clare County Counci (dpa@clarecoco.ie) to establish the circumstances.  We may be in a position to resolve the problem in a timely manner.

The Data Protection Commission website www.dataprotection.ie has further details and the forms that are required to completed if you wish to raise a concer or make a complaint.

Contact details for the data controller and data protection officer

The identity and the contact details of the controller:

Clare County Council

New Road

Ennis

Co Clare

Telephone: (065) 6821616

Email: roads@clarecoco.ie

Website: www.clarecoco.ie

The contact details for the data protection officer are:

Data Protection Office

Telephone: (065) 6846405

Email: dpa@clarecoco.ie

Page last reviewed: 12/08/24

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