Expected traffic density for the 2017 US solar eclipse?

Are there any sites, maps, or news articles with informed estimates of how many people will be traveling to various locations along the total eclipse path? I know that many locations, such as Carbondale IL and Hopkinsville KY, will be completely mobbed. But that means other less-notable spots might end up with lower popularity and easier driving. Is there any way to identify those?

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To provide a simple answer and some native insight. I live in a town in South Carolina that is dead center on the line of the Eclipse. We're expected to have double the population in our town (near Greenville, SC). 200,000 increased to an estimated 400,000.

We have been advised numerous times to stay off the roads. Coincidentally, it is also move in weekend for most colleges. Thousands of more families traveling into SC for that reason. This will not help.

As a side note, we've also been advised not to make phone calls and live video feeds as certain people in the phone industry believe we could overload the towers, providing a dangerous situation for 911 response.

Most weekly events scheduled for Monday have been moved to Tuesday. All the stores are sold out of glasses.