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Analyze Boston

Numina Sensor Measurement of Multimodal Activity and Shared Streets

Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics

Updated Feb 25, 2025

About this dataset

This dataset is the resulting traffic volume data from a recent pilot of computer-vision sensors.

The following metrics were measured: -Volume counts of people, bikes, cars, trucks, and busses passing through pilot project areas -Volumes accounted for by mode and timestamped at up to 15-minute intervals -Desire lines and movement patterns accounted for by mode

The primary purpose of this pilot was to understand the impacts of temporary street-level changes that would be implemented to facilitate a safe re-opening in the context of Covid-19. A secondary objective of the project was to evaluate a privacy-oriented solution to data collection in the public realm.

Sensors were installed at three distinct locations: -In the Seaport district on a commercial street with bike lanes (Northern Avenue) -Downtown at a busy intersection next to the Boston Common (Tremont Street) -And in Jamaica Plain where the southwest corridor convenes with a blue bike station and T stop (Jackson Sq.)

Please complete this form to access the City of Boston Sandbox and access the data in API format: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScuEQEsmTToEMBRqvX7uhpCiWu165T4GciTCMEa2ylC2bT59w/viewform

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