Bicycle counter

Most counting stations only consist of sensors, the internal computing device, although some use a display to show the total number of cyclists of the day and the current year.

[4][7] There has been no representative study on the impact of bicycle counters on citizens or by-passers, but some early empirical clues that urban visualizations can "become appropriate communication media for sharing, discussing, and co-producing socially relevant data".

[12] "Through sensing technology, a display can act as a tool that increases the capability to capture a behavior (e.g., measuring residential energy consumption, bicycle use, etc.

[2] Different setups provide different advantages such as more precise counting, battery life,[15] reduced costs or differentiation between different road users such as cyclists, pedestrians or cars.

[26] There has been creative use of the data generated by counting stations, such as an information design poster which includes number of daily cyclists, precipitation and temperature.