The City of Denton has two permanent bike and pedestrian usage counters installed on the Denton Branch Rail Trail (Denton Katy Trail). These counters are produced by Eco-Counter and were installed July 23, 2014. Link: Eco-Counter Multi-Nature Counter
These counters detect traffic using directed PIR motion sensors and inductive loop sensors. Pedestrians will trigger motion detection in with the PIR sensor while a bicycle will trigger both the PIR and inductive loop. The counts from these are reported back to "the cloud" (Eco-Counter) where they can be evaluated with Eco-Counter generated analytics or the data exported for external analysis.
The City has also deployed temporary "tube" counters to evaluate bike lane usage in recent changes like the Eagle St. lane reconfiguration (road diet.) These are the counters that look like rubber hoses laid across the road. Except in this instance, it's just the bike lane width. Link: Eco-Counter Tube Counter
This type of data gathering is usually over a short time span in order to evaluate a specific occurrence or event.
Data provided was exported in CSV format and does include descriptive headers.
Date,Hour,Pedestrians,Cyclist
13/08/2014,0:00,27,86
14/08/2014,0:00,42,132
15/08/2014,0:00,49,89
16/08/2014,0:00,49,91
17/08/2014,0:00,36,61
- Compare data year to year. Hopefully we'd see an increase in utilization.
- Visualizations
- Relate to weather. I'd expect to see an increase when the weather has been nice is that true?
- Build workflow to make this data more accessible (automation)
- A task runner to export from Eco-Counter and import on the OpenData Portal?