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Title: Effectiveness of a Commercially Available Automated Pedestrian Counting Device in Urban Environments: Comparison with Manual Counts
Accession Number: 01088483
Record Type: Component
Availability: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Abstract: High-quality continuous counts of pedestrian volume are necessary to evaluate the effects of pedestrian infrastructure investments and to improve pedestrian volume modeling. Automated pedestrian counting devices can meet the need for continuous counts of pedestrian volume and reduce the labor cost associated with manual pedestrian counting and data entry. However, most existing automated pedestrian devices are not well suited to the task of counting pedestrians in outdoor environments, and little is known about their effectiveness and accuracy. This study addresses the lack of performance information on automated counting devices by providing a review of commercially available devices and by testing the accuracy of a promising device in an outdoor urban context. It finds that a dual sensor passive infrared device is capable of producing reasonably accurate pedestrian volume counts in the outdoor urban context. It also finds a high degree of inter-reliability between counts collected by field observers and through video recordings.
Monograph Title: Monograph Accession #: 01084478
Report/Paper Numbers: 08-0503
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Greene-Roesel, RyanDiogenes, Mara ChagasRagland, David RLindau, Luis AntonioPagination: 16p
Publication Date: 2008
Conference:
Transportation Research Board 87th Annual Meeting
Location:
Washington DC, United States Media Type: DVD
Features: Figures; Photos; Tables
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TRT Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Subject Areas: Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Public Transportation; Society
Source Data: Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2008 Paper #08-0503
Files: TRIS, TRB
Created Date: Jan 29 2008 2:51PM
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