Validating the Corral Occupancy Sensor

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.

@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},
}