APPI Northern Event - Traffic Counts using CounterPoint

Adam Prokopanko recently presented CounterPoint at the Canadian Institute of Planners conference in Fredericton, New Brunswick. He will be visiting Yellowknife next week, and has agreed to do a similar demonstration for Yellowknife planners, engineers, and other people interested in transportation issues.
CounterPoint is an app designed to make it easy to count traffic – all kinds of traffic. More importantly,it counts all the key kinds of traffic and anyone can do it.
The idea is simple. Pull out your smartphone and set up a counterpoint where you are. Look across the street and start counting.
Simple icons tell you what to count. You can also find an existing point and add to that count. A photo helps you know you’re in the right spot. It’s something anyone can do, anywhere. All data is saved forever and it is public. The app is free to use, it’s social, it’s fun. Its feels like a game, but the information it generates is no joke.
In this presentation, after a brief introduction and demonstration, participants will walk around downtown Yellowknife and choose sites at which to conduct a traffic count. They will conduct a few 5-10 minute counts on their own smartphones, tablets, or other mobile computing devices. The data gathered will be instantly uploaded to the CounterPoint database and available for free public access by all workshop participants. The workshop will conclude with an open group discussion on the applicability of
CounterPoint as a crowdsourced data collection tool for planners and other professionals.

Participants will require a smartphone, tablet, or other mobile computing device in order to conduct their own traffic counts.

This workshop qualifies for 1.0 structured unit for each hour of learning. To be self reported.