Broadway Bicycle Traffic Counts From In-Ground Sensors

Eco-Counter in-ground loop detectors under Broadway pavement in Cambridge, Massachusetts, record cyclist traffic in 15-minute increments. Data collection is currently paused due to construction as of June 30, 2024. The project was funded by the Helen & William Mazer Foundation.

Use Cases

• Modeling daily and seasonal bicycle traffic patterns using the Time, Date, and Total columns.
• Comparing directional flow imbalances between the Eastbound and Westbound columns for infrastructure planning.
• Forecasting peak bicycle commute hours by analyzing the Time and Day columns against the Total count.
• Assessing the impact of construction or events by analyzing trends in the Total column before and after June 2024.

Strengths

• Data granularity is high with counts recorded in 15-minute increments.
• Sensor-based collection via in-ground loop detectors provides automated, consistent measurement.

Limitations

• Data collection is currently paused indefinitely due to construction, limiting temporal coverage.
• Geographic coverage is limited to a single sensor location on Broadway near Kendall Square.
• Unknown total row count and historical time range prevent assessment of dataset scale.

Provenance

Source

data.cambridgema.gov (City of Cambridge Open Data Portal).

Collection Method

Counts gathered via an Eco-Counter 'Eco-Totem' using in-ground inductive loop detectors.

Time Range

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Freshness

Data collection paused as of June 30, 2024; dataset metadata was last updated September 17, 2025.

Geography

Broadway near Kendall Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.