The paper deals with two different heuristic\ud
approaches for solving the problem of optimal location of traffic\ud
count sections (OLTCS), which is a crucial issue of the design of\ud
area wide ITS traffic monitoring centers. The first method\ud
applies deterministic rules on O/D flows and O/D pairs\ud
coverage. The second is based on a genetic algorithm (GA).\ud
Both are applied on a real size extra-urban road network and\ud
compared to a state-of-the art rule widely used in practical\ud
applications