THETerritorial Public Establishment for the Sèvre Nantaise Watershed ensures the promotion and management of a 400 kilometer hiking trail. To ensure its good maintenance and better understand the uses of hikers, it was essential to quantifying the number of visits to the various installations located along the route.
The data collected thanks to Kiomda counting box allow to identify The busiest crossing points, in order to adapt infrastructure maintenance and to assess development opportunities.
“We need to know how often the various existing installations along the way are used, for their maintenance and also to know if certain crossing points can be used as educational information sites about the surrounding natural environment.”
The data from the count is presented to elected officials During activity reports and water management reports. They play a key role in decisions related to the development and development of the trail.
“The figures are integrated into our activity reports and our water management reports, to meet the needs of elected officials.”
Thanks to these analyses, the community hasconcrete indicators to justify maintenance choices and anticipate future infrastructure needs.
Counting makes it possible to better plan the maintenance of existing installations and to assess opportunities for educational valorization. Some crossing points could thus be transformed into information spaces on the natural environment.
The follow-up of positioning of counters has been identified as a point of improvement to facilitate flow analysis. A request has been made to be able to Precisely locate meters on a map and get photos of the installations on site.
“It would be useful to position the meters precisely on a map and to have photos of the installations.”
Regarding the development of the project, a Request for quotation was initiated in November 2023 For of new counters, but paused. The approach should be to be relaunched internally soon to complete the device.
