Measuring park and facility usage
How to measure park usage
A practical look at how parks and recreation teams can move from guesses to real numbers about how their spaces get used.
How to count trail traffic
Approaches for measuring how many people use a trail, and why trails are often the hardest spaces to count well.
Justifying parks and recreation budgets with data
How to justify a parks budget with data
How parks and recreation departments can use real usage data to make a clearer, calmer case for the funding they need.
What city councils want to see before funding a park
The questions councils tend to ask before approving park funding, and how to come prepared with answers.
Occupancy and counting technology, and its privacy
People counter vs camera for parks, and what it means for privacy
A plain comparison of non-camera and camera-based counting for parks, focused on what each is for and what each means for resident privacy.
Giving residents live availability for courts and facilities
Why showing residents how busy a court or facility is right now can improve their experience while keeping every visitor anonymous.
Citizen reporting for parks and recreation
How resident reports fit alongside anonymous usage data, and where each one is most useful.