Interesting is the process in which it was defined, which places are worth of consideration in pedestrian counting.
When the places that should be measured were chosen, the focus was only on the usage of the data as a predictor for revenue losses in the retail sector. Thus the scanners were installed in the so called A-centers of business Frankfurt and the B-Centers (districts centers) which are defined by a high density of businesses and retail stores. They thus do not cover traffic axes or recreational areas which would be important to quantify pedestrian traffic throughout the city. That now the produced data became interesting for traffic planning and monitoring changed the affordances for the definition of important measuring points.Â
