Carriage Road Census Data 1994, 1995 - 1997

Jacobi, Charles

Methods and data on Carriage Road use in 1994 and 1995-1997. From the document: "This is a summary reporting of carriage road census data with an overview of methods and metadata, with limited data analysis and explanations, and no formal write up. The purpose of the memorandum is to place in the bibliography a permanent record of important data for which there is no formal report. A vast body of research and monitoring literature is available for carriage road visitor use and experiences, most of which is in the park's bibliography. This includes research reports from the University of Vermont for work conducted between 1994 and 1996, and, since 1997, monitoring reports for each year. We conducted the first carriage road census in 1994. The results prompted a continuation of censuses from 1995-1997 which were used to develop a regression estimator of daily carriage road use based on counts from an electronic trail counter. However, censuses were only concerned with the total use of the carriage roads on the census days for regression analysis. Each monitoring report contains the total use from the census data and the regression analysis in an appendix. More detailed data on User Types, Location of Entry, and Hour of Entry collected each census day was compiled in Quattro Pro spread sheets but never reported on or archived in the bibliography. This memorandum accomplishes that task. Here we document data from the first census on August 2, 1994, a May 27, 1996 census that was not included as part of the regression analysis (trail counter failure), and the 11 censuses conducted between 1995 and 1997 to develop the regression." /STUDY LOCATIONS:/ /MOUNT DESERT ISLAND/Carriage Roads/

Carriage Road Census Data 1994, 1995 - 1997

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