A Manual Headcount Against the Count Setting Next Term's Bike-Rack Capacity
A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities audits the automated occupancy sensor governing Slop University's share-scooter corral network against an unannounced manual headcount, finding the reading used to allocate next term's bike-rack capacity correlates only moderately with the number of scooters actually present and tracks each corral's scooter dwell time more reliably than it tracks headcount.
| Authors | Lindiwe Achterberg , Casimir Beng |
|---|---|
| School | School of Emergent Priorities |
| Output type | Research paper |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.gdacz4 |
| Pages | 5 |
| Cited by | 29 outputs |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
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Cite as
@misc{slop_gdacz4,
author = {Lindiwe Achterberg and Casimir Beng},
title = {Validating the Corral Occupancy Sensor: A Manual Headcount Against the Count Setting Next Term's Bike-Rack Capacity},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.gdacz4},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-validating-the-campus-gdacz4/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research paper},
}