Live Well Luzerne, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania 18704, USA.
Am J Prev Med. 2012 Nov;43(5 Suppl 4):S399-402. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2012.06.029.
Downtown Wilkes-Barre, a town of 40,000 residents in Northeast Pennsylvania, and the hub of a planned urban, suburban, and rural trail network, was the site of a number of changes to improve walkability during the Active Living by Design (ALbD) grant period.
The Wyoming Valley Wellness Trails Partnership and Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Business and Industry initiated the Wilkes-Barre Downtown Bicycle and Pedestrian Count (Bike-Ped Count) in order to pilot bicycle and pedestrian counting methods and to evaluate downtown built environment and policy changes.
The Bike-Ped Count was conducted during nine 2-hour counting periods over 4 days in September using screen-line count methods at seven locations downtown and at River Common Park.
During 18 hours of counting, staff noted 15,347 pedestrians and 773 bicyclists. The largest average number of pedestrians (512) was observed during lunch hours, whereas the largest numbers of bicyclists were observed during evening and weekend hours.
The Bike-Ped Count illustrates patterns of bicycling and walking downtown and allows comparisons of bicycling and walking among locations, including different cities. In the future, counts will help show how ongoing changes to the downtown environment affect walking and bicycling.
位于宾夕法尼亚州东北部、拥有 4 万居民的威尔克斯-巴里市区是一个规划中的城市、郊区和农村步道网络的中心，在积极生活设计（ALbD）资助期间，这里发生了许多旨在改善步行条件的变化。
怀俄明山谷健康步道伙伴关系和大威尔克斯-巴里商业和工业商会发起了威尔克斯-巴里市区自行车和行人计数（Bike-Ped Count），以试行自行车和行人计数方法，并评估市区的建成环境和政策变化。
Bike-Ped Count 在 9 月的 4 天内进行了 9 次 2 小时的计数，在市区的 7 个地点和里弗康公园使用了屏幕线计数方法。
在 18 小时的计数中，工作人员记录了 15347 名行人及 773 名骑自行车的人。午餐时间观察到的行人平均人数最多（512 人），而骑自行车的人最多的时间是晚上和周末。
Bike-Ped Count 展示了市区骑自行车和步行的模式，并允许对不同地点的自行车和步行情况进行比较，包括不同的城市。未来，这些计数将有助于展示市区环境的持续变化如何影响步行和骑自行车。
