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It's not just the UK. Prospect Council in Adelaide Australia have "Prospect Fast WiFi" https://networkprospect.com.au/prospect-fast-wifi/ https://networkprospec
by softgrow 7y ago
It's not just the UK. Prospect Council in Adelaide Australia have "Prospect Fast WiFi" https://networkprospect.com.au/prospect-fast-wifi/ https://networkprospect.com.au/prospect-fast-wifi/. It costs a little to provide, but they get back actionable metrics for assessing how much foot traffic there is and then evaluate policy effectiveness for their main street. A much richer data source for next to nothing compared to other methods of tracking visitors to the area. Still I'm surprised that TfL wants that level of detail as they already log people in and out of the (transport) system, so can easily measure how well things work (or not).
- frosted-flakes 7y agoI remember reading about this when they were still piloting it a while back. Entry and exit info is valuable, but doesn't help when there are multiple routes between those stations that you want to compare. Also, it can identify seemingly rounadabout routes that people take for whatever reason (quieter, fewer transfers, more transfer but more likely to get a seat, want to avoid taking the same train as Mad Mary from the office, etc.), but I don't know what they do with that information.