Measuring Walking

Is there anybody out there?

It is amazing how few people managing walking networks have any idea how many people are using them. As competition increases for budgets the more information you have the better you can make the case for funding.

We can help!

People counting

We can advise you on whether it is worth investing in automatic pedestrian counters, and if we think it is we’ll advise you on what would work best, and where to put them. We’ll even install them, and collect and analyse the data for you. We’ll prepare reports to demonstrate what the figures mean. Where you have qualitative data from user surveys we’ll combine the results to give a real picture of use on your network.

Condition surveys

It’s all very well knowing how many people are out there, and what they think about the route, but do you know what it’s like? We can design surveys for you to record the condition of your route. We’ve done enough surveys ourselves to know that the hardest part is deciding what to measure – we’ll offer advice and make suggestions to make sure your survey works for you. We can carry out the survey for you, or train you to do it, or manage a professional team of surveyors – it all depends on what you want.

... if you want to know how far you’ve walked we’d recommend buying a pedometer!