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Pedestrian Trajectory Dataset of Public European Squares.

Nils Wolff, Layne Perry, Titus Venverloo, Geertje Slingerland, Jessica Wreyford, Paolo Santi, Fábio Duarte

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Article in Scientific data, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Authors and funding

7 authors.

Nils WolffSenseable City Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA. wolffn@mit.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0002-4451-0347
Layne PerrySenseable City Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.
Titus VenverlooSenseable City Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.
Geertje SlingerlandArchitecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands.
Jessica WreyfordLaboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands.
Paolo SantiSenseable City Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8942-8702
Fábio DuarteSenseable City Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA. fduarte@mit.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0909-5379

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pedestrian trajectories are used to learn about human behavior in public space and the impact of spatial features on pedestrian flows. Currently, these trajectories are collected manually, with self-tracking devices, or with video cameras. Even when trajectories are obtained using computational techniques, such as using computer vision to trace them in space, these datasets are not made available for reproducibility or comparative studies between different locations. To close this gap, this paper makes available the data of pedestrian trajectories collected in 39 European squares. Firstly, we summarize the data collection process which was based on collecting footage from publicly available webcams. Secondly, we describe the process of trajectory extraction entailing object detection, tracking, and georeferencing. Lastly, we describe the data cleaning and validation steps that lead to the final dataset. The dataset ultimately includes 348,300 pedestrian trajectories extracted from 193 hours of video footage, collected at different times of the day, during working days and weekends, and during the Spring and Summer season.

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