railtrail: Volume of Users of a Rail Trail

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Volume of Users of a Rail Trail

Description

This data table is modifed slightly from mosaicData::RailTrail, (see http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/mosaicData/mosaicData.pdf). Description below is drawn from the mosaicData help file.

Usage

data(railtrail)

Format

A data frame with 90 observations on the following variables.

• hightemp daily high temperature (in degrees Fahrenheit)

• lowtemp daily low temperature (in degrees Fahrenheit)

• avgtemp average of daily low and daily high temperature (in degrees Fahrenheit)

• season spring, summer or fall

• cloudcover measure of cloud cover (in oktas)

• precip measure of precipitation (in inches)

• volume estimated number of trail users that day (number of breaks recorded)

• weekday logical indicator of whether the day was a non-holiday weekday

• dayType one of "weekday" or "weekend"

Details

The Pioneer Valley Planning Commission (PVPC) collected data north of Chestnut Street in Florence, MA for ninety days from April 5, 2005 to November 15, 2005. Data collectors set up a laser sensor, with breaks in the laser beam recording when a rail-trail user passed the data collection station.

There is a potential for error when two users trigger the infrared beam at exactly the same time since the counter would only logs one of the crossings. The collectors left the motion detector out during the winter, but because the counter drops data when the temperature falls below 14 degrees Fahrenheit, there is no data for the cold winter months.

Source

Pioneer Valley Planning Commission

References

http://www.fvgreenway.org/pdfs/Northampton-Bikepath-Volume-Counts

Examples

data(railtrail)

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