Trail counters show 15.93% increase in use since 2022; staff using algorithms to clean 307,000 data points
OST staff presented a cleaned analysis of 2025 trail-counter data that removed anomalies from roughly 307,000 points, found a 15.93% increase in usage across five counters since 2022, and proposed integrating Strava Metro, GPS sources, and interactive story maps for public visualization.
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Open Space and Trails staff presented their 2025 trail-counter analysis, describing both the technical approach to clean noisy sensor data and the resulting usage trends.
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