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Unfortunately the FoCW counter has been rendered inoperable with spray paint! Paint has been sprayed into the optical windows of the counter making the lenses and sensors within the equipment opaque. This leaves the counter unable to sense pedestrians or cyclists on the path. Scratching the paint with my thumbnail revealed it can be removed…
The popularity of Centurion Way is unsurprisingly proving to be weather dependent. Wet weather slightly dampened peoples appetite to get fresh air and exercise on the path in the latter half of the month. A total of 29,618 journeys were recorded by the FoCW counter in July 2021. Wikipedia reports that the 2011 Census recorded…
The Friends of Centurion Way have now collected 6 months of data monitoring how people use the path! A chart of the paths usage throughout June 2021 is shown below: Friday the 18th saw remarkably high traffic of 1,191 northbound journeys and 1,001 southbound journeys. This gave a total of 2,192 journeys counted on…
At the beginning of May 2021, the counter system was undercounting! During bright sunny conditions people passing the counter were not registered. We have temporarily resolved the issue by boosting the infrared light beam (starting from May 13th). We hope the counter supplier Axiomatic can provide a better long term solution. On Monday 24th May,…
The counter has been missing some counts of path usage on bright afternoons. Data records are reporting errors during these periods of bright sunshine. The FoCW will investigate this issue and hope soon to give a more detailed report of the problem. We hope we can quickly resolve this problem. The count data as it…
The Friends of Centurion Way have now collected almost a quarter years figures of path usage starting from Jan 1st 2021. We only completed installation of the counter at lunch time on new years day so missed data from the very first morning of the year. The counter is at the Southern end of Centurion…
On march the first the Friends of Centurion Way downloaded a count of the people using the path over February 2021. The counter is at the Southern end of the path by Bishop Luffa school and recorded the data shown in the cart below. Red bars represent Southbound traffic and the blue bars represent Northbound…
There was a surprisingly large variation in traffic volumes from day to day on Centurion Way during January 2021. Presumably the variation was due to the changeable weather? Our counter at the Southern end of the path by Bishop Luffa school recorded the data shown in the cart below. A larger image of the chart…
The FoCW have fitted a people counter at the Southern end of Centurion Way. This is so we can document the number of people using the path and use the figures to argue for the preservation of walking and cycling opportunities in the area. The Southern end of Centurion Way is threatened by local housing…
An important stage in setting up a system for counting people using Centurion Way at its Southern end, is to verify that our Axiomatic People counter is registering people on the path correctly. Automated counting is not as straight forward as it may first appear using a beam counter. For example a child in a…