Placecast™ by Date Version 2.1, Publication Date 2023.12.10

On December 10, 2023, Motionworks published an update to its Placecast™ by Date product. While the end-user schemas have not changed, the data pipeline process used to generate the cleared places was updated based on internal audits and customer feedback.

Changes by Place Type

With each new release of Placecast™ by Date, Motionworks reviews changes at each place type and reports whether the place had a material change in an hourly visit estimate. These changes are reported in the table below and visualized in this PDF.

Place Type	Total Places	Immaterial Change	Removed for Auditing	Less Than 5%	Less Than 10%	Less Than 50%	Less Than 100%	Greater Than 100%
Total	404,596	336,059	434	56,412	4,249	4,234	1,891	1,328
Academic Building	1,365	1,237	7	85	27	7	1	1
Airport Concourse	239	234	0	0	0	3	2	0
Airport Gate	4	3	0	0	0	0	1	0
Airport Terminal	149	122	0	23	0	3	1	0
Amusement Park	57	51	0	0	2	3	1	0
Auto Dealership	25,861	25,493	33	208	34	52	16	25
Bank	3,621	3,387	9	158	31	28	3	5
Bar	50,364	38,317	89	11,331	400	72	61	96
Bus Garage Routes	243	225	0	0	0	15	3	0
Business	7,075	5,125	8	1,526	191	174	15	36
Car Wash Facility	44	44	0	0	0	0	0	0
Casino	328	270	1	23	2	27	3	2
Child Care Facility	228	212	1	13	0	2	0	0
Coffee Shop	8,051	7,781	2	210	1	31	11	15
Commercial Airport	309	300	0	2	0	3	1	3
Community Center	170	158	0	8	3	0	0	1
Convenience Store	19,210	17,221	20	1,862	30	18	30	31
Convention Center	94	93	0	0	0	0	0	1
Country Club	89	84	0	4	0	0	1	0
Drugstore	10,779	9,194	3	1,299	116	69	55	43
Event	65	51	0	0	13	0	0	1
Event Detection	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Event Facility	214	176	0	30	3	2	0	3
Ferry	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fire Department	30	30	0	0	0	0	0	0
Food Court	10	6	0	1	1	1	0	1
Fraternal Organization	2,805	2,771	2	15	9	1	3	4
Gas Station	2,302	2,280	0	12	0	5	2	3
General Aviation Airport	188	187	0	0	0	0	1	0
Grocery Store	16,322	13,727	15	2,044	134	172	147	83
Gym	3,272	2,972	0	266	17	8	4	5
Hospital	1,290	1,128	0	40	21	55	30	16
Hotel	1,809	1,300	3	239	84	115	33	35
Indoor Rec	1,116	973	0	80	13	27	6	17
Institutional Housing	64	61	2	1	0	0	0	0
Laundromat	328	309	0	17	0	0	1	1
Lifestyle Center	262	199	1	27	0	18	11	6
Liquor Store	1,319	1,292	1	24	0	1	1	0
Lobby	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Medical Office	5,589	4,610	1	768	93	72	23	22
Medical Office - Cardiology	479	351	1	126	1	0	0	0
Medical Office - Dentist Office	333	261	0	70	0	0	2	0
Medical Office - Dermatology	542	418	1	123	0	0	0	0
Medical Office - Gastroenterology	185	99	0	86	0	0	0	0
Medical Office - Neurology	123	90	0	33	0	0	0	0
Medical Office - Oncology	392	277	0	114	0	0	0	1
Medical Office - Physical Therapy	62	50	0	12	0	0	0	0
Medical Office - Primary Care	5,793	4,762	8	976	0	31	4	12
Medical Office - Rheumatology	77	50	0	26	0	0	0	1
Medical Office - Women's Health	502	357	1	143	0	1	0	0
Office Building	2,566	1,871	4	429	37	119	35	71
Outdoor Rec	331	325	0	2	3	0	0	1
Outlet Mall	152	133	0	19	0	0	0	0
Park	449	449	0	0	0	0	0	0
Parking Structure	693	526	2	105	9	23	18	10
Pedestrian Plaza	56	44	2	0	4	4	1	1
Quick Serve Restaurant	63,136	58,513	25	4,125	172	104	89	108
Residential Facility	3,382	2,661	5	573	36	54	20	35
Rest Stop	69	67	0	2	0	0	0	0
Retail	31,284	29,072	30	1,979	78	32	52	46
Shopping Center	4,817	4,285	4	430	43	21	25	9
Shopping Mall	992	813	1	128	13	34	1	2
Sitdown Restaurant	115,349	82,293	141	25,852	2,608	2,784	1,138	533
Spiritual Center	70	57	0	8	0	4	0	1
Stadium	1,014	905	2	52	8	23	9	15
Streetscape	28	26	0	0	0	2	0	0
Student Center	99	90	0	2	0	0	6	1
Theater	1,728	1,477	0	213	5	4	15	14
Tourist Attraction	612	583	3	22	0	2	0	2
Trail	17	17	0	0	0	0	0	0
Transit Hub	31	31	0	0	0	0	0	0
Transit Station	2,705	2,265	0	421	7	4	5	3
University Campus	170	169	1	0	0	0	0	0
University Dining	21	20	0	1	0	0	0	0
University Health Center	45	43	0	0	0	0	0	2
University Housing	339	319	3	12	0	3	1	1
University Recreation Center	313	310	0	1	0	0	1	1
Warehouse	365	349	1	10	0	1	2	2

*Immaterial changes are differences of less than ten visits per hour or if a place was new or modified.

Cleared Places by Place Type

Place Type	Total Places	Newly Cleared Places	Newly Added Cleared Places in Vintage 2023.12.10	Newly Removed Cleared Places in Vintage 2023.12.10	Previously Cleared
Total	431,075	430,657	42,425	418	388,650
Academic Building	1,365	1,358	4	7	1,361
Airport Concourse	239	239	1	0	238
Airport Gate	4	4	1	0	3
Airport Terminal	149	149	1	0	148
Amusement Park	57	57	0	0	57
Auto Dealership	25,861	25,828	16	33	25,845
Bank	3,621	3,612	7	9	3,614
Bar	50,374	50,292	169	82	50,205
Bus Garage Routes	243	243	0	0	243
Business	7,087	7,084	102	3	6,985
Car Wash Facility	44	44	0	0	44
Casino	328	327	24	1	304
Child Care Facility	228	228	0	0	228
Coffee Shop	8,051	8,049	8	2	8,043
Commercial Airport	309	309	0	0	309
Community Center	170	170	1	0	169
Convenience Store	19,231	19,213	27	18	19,204
Convention Center	94	94	0	0	94
Country Club	89	89	1	0	88
Drugstore	10,787	10,784	12	3	10,775
Event	65	65	1	0	64
Event Detection	2	1	0	1	2
Event Facility	214	214	0	0	214
Face	26,177	26,163	4	14	26,173
Ferry	7	7	0	0	7
Fire Department	30	30	0	0	30
Food Court	10	10	1	0	9
Fraternal Organization	2,805	2,803	2	2	2,803
Gas Station	2,302	2,302	2	0	2,300
General Aviation Airport	188	188	0	0	188
Grocery Store	16,331	16,317	10	14	16,321
Gym	3,294	3,294	4	0	3,290
Hospital	1,292	1,292	6	0	1,286
Hotel	1,809	1,806	57	3	1,752
Indoor Rec	1,118	1,118	4	0	1,114
Institutional Housing	64	62	0	2	64
Laundromat	328	328	1	0	327
Lifestyle Center	262	261	3	1	259
Liquor Store	1,319	1,319	3	0	1,316
Lobby	1	1	0	0	1
Medical Office	5,635	5,634	3	1	5,632
Medical Office - Cardiology	500	499	1	1	499
Medical Office - Dentist Office	333	333	0	0	333
Medical Office - Dermatology	550	550	0	0	550
Medical Office - Gastroenterology	201	201	0	0	201
Medical Office - Neurology	131	131	0	0	131
Medical Office - Oncology	415	415	0	0	415
Medical Office - Physical Therapy	64	64	0	0	64
Medical Office - Primary Care	5,806	5,805	3	1	5,803
Medical Office - Rheumatology	87	87	0	0	87
Medical Office - Women's Health	519	518	2	1	517
Neighborhood	1	1	0	0	1
Office Building	2,567	2,563	28	4	2,539
Outdoor Rec	331	331	1	0	330
Outlet Mall	152	152	1	0	151
Park	449	449	2	0	447
Parking Structure	693	691	7	2	686
Pedestrian Plaza	56	54	0	2	56
Quick Serve Restaurant	63,137	63,112	75	25	63,062
Residential Facility	3,382	3,377	73	5	3,309
Rest Stop	69	69	0	0	69
Retail	31,309	31,283	16	26	31,293
Shopping Center	4,817	4,813	12	4	4,805
Shopping Mall	992	991	15	1	977
Sitdown Restaurant	115,367	115,227	41,698	140	73,669
Spiritual Center	70	70	4	0	66
Stadium	1,014	1,012	7	2	1,007
Streetscape	28	28	0	0	28
Student Center	99	99	1	0	98
Theater	1,732	1,732	1	0	1,731
Tourist Attraction	612	609	2	3	610
Trail	17	17	0	0	17
Transit Hub	31	31	0	0	31
Transit Station	2,705	2,705	1	0	2,704
University Campus	170	169	0	1	170
University Dining	21	21	0	0	21
University Health Center	46	46	0	0	46
University Housing	339	336	0	3	339
University Recreation Center	313	313	0	0	313
Warehouse	366	365	0	1	366

Scores by Place Type

Place Type	Average Dwell Score - Previous	Average Dwell Score - Latest	Average Footprint Score - Previous	Average Footprint Score - Latest	Average Profile Score - Previous	Average Profile Score - Latest	Average Visit Score - Previous	Average Visit Score - Latest
Academic Building	0.22	0.22	nan	0.32	0.13	0.11	0.24	0.24
Airport Concourse	0.27	0.25	nan	0.30	0.08	0.09	0.23	0.23
Airport Gate	0.39	0.45	nan	0.21	0.25	0.21	0.39	0.39
Airport Terminal	0.30	0.30	nan	0.29	0.08	0.09	0.35	0.35
Amusement Park	0.35	0.35	nan	0.37	0.24	0.22	0.33	0.34
Auto Dealership	0.24	0.24	nan	0.31	0.09	0.09	0.27	0.27
Bank	0.25	0.25	nan	0.33	0.10	0.09	0.16	0.16
Bar	0.25	0.24	nan	0.35	0.12	0.11	0.19	0.19
Bus Garage Routes	0.37	0.37	nan	0.28	0.24	0.19	0.36	0.36
Business	0.21	0.21	nan	0.33	0.09	0.09	0.18	0.18
Car Wash Facility	0.24	0.24	nan	0.34	0.11	0.12	0.29	0.29
Casino	0.28	0.28	nan	0.34	0.19	0.17	0.21	0.21
Child Care Facility	0.29	0.29	nan	0.31	0.14	0.14	0.26	0.26
Coffee Shop	0.25	0.25	nan	0.34	0.11	0.10	0.27	0.27
Commercial Airport	0.26	0.26	nan	0.29	0.29	0.25	0.30	0.30
Community Center	0.24	0.24	nan	0.33	0.15	0.14	0.18	0.19
Convenience Store	0.28	0.28	nan	0.34	0.12	0.11	0.16	0.16
Convention Center	0.33	0.33	nan	0.39	0.16	0.14	0.25	0.25
Country Club	0.27	0.27	nan	0.36	0.11	0.10	0.23	0.23
Drugstore	0.33	0.33	nan	0.34	0.23	0.21	0.12	0.12
Event	0.20	0.20	nan	0.39	0.16	0.16	0.36	0.36
Event Detection	0.29	0.41	nan	0.43	0.20	0.17	0.34	0.45
Event Facility	0.25	0.24	nan	0.36	0.17	0.14	0.23	0.23
Ferry	0.36	0.36	nan	0.37	0.33	0.33	0.29	0.29
Fire Department	0.33	0.33	nan	0.34	0.18	0.19	0.32	0.32
Food Court	0.25	0.22	nan	0.35	0.28	0.26	0.22	0.22
Fraternal Organization	0.26	0.26	nan	0.33	0.14	0.13	0.25	0.25
Gas Station	0.28	0.27	nan	0.35	0.02	0.02	0.29	0.29
General Aviation Airport	0.30	0.30	nan	0.35	0.17	0.16	0.26	0.26
Grocery Store	0.30	0.30	nan	0.33	0.22	0.18	0.11	0.12
Gym	0.24	0.24	nan	0.34	0.15	0.13	0.15	0.15
Hospital	0.34	0.34	nan	0.32	0.29	0.19	0.17	0.18
Hotel	0.29	0.29	nan	0.35	0.19	0.14	0.22	0.22
Indoor Rec	0.26	0.26	nan	0.34	0.23	0.22	0.16	0.17
Institutional Housing	0.34	0.34	nan	0.33	0.05	0.05	0.29	0.29
Laundromat	0.25	0.25	nan	0.34	0.12	0.12	0.17	0.17
Lifestyle Center	0.34	0.32	nan	0.34	0.26	0.23	0.28	0.24
Liquor Store	0.27	0.27	nan	0.34	0.06	0.06	0.16	0.16
Medical Office	0.30	0.29	nan	0.31	0.15	0.12	0.25	0.25
Medical Office - Cardiology	0.34	0.34	nan	0.30	0.25	0.22	0.44	0.44
Medical Office - Dentist Office	0.31	0.30	nan	0.30	0.16	0.14	0.27	0.27
Medical Office - Dermatology	0.30	0.30	nan	0.30	0.20	0.18	0.37	0.37
Medical Office - Gastroenterology	0.30	0.30	nan	0.30	0.27	0.23	0.49	0.49
Medical Office - Neurology	0.32	0.32	nan	0.31	0.25	0.22	0.45	0.45
Medical Office - Oncology	0.30	0.30	nan	0.31	0.25	0.22	0.39	0.39
Medical Office - Physical Therapy	0.29	0.29	nan	0.32	0.22	0.19	0.34	0.34
Medical Office - Primary Care	0.30	0.30	nan	0.31	0.17	0.15	0.35	0.35
Medical Office - Rheumatology	0.24	0.23	nan	0.30	0.28	0.21	0.44	0.44
Medical Office - Women's Health	0.32	0.32	nan	0.29	0.25	0.22	0.44	0.44
Neighborhood	0.42	0.42	nan	0.88	0.06	0.05	0.90	0.90
Office Building	0.28	0.28	nan	0.35	0.22	0.19	0.15	0.16
Outdoor Rec	0.17	0.17	nan	0.35	0.10	0.10	0.28	0.28
Outlet Mall	0.30	0.30	nan	0.31	0.18	0.18	0.35	0.35
Park	0.15	0.15	nan	0.38	0.11	0.09	0.29	0.29
Parking Structure	0.29	0.29	nan	0.35	0.20	0.18	0.21	0.21
Pedestrian Plaza	0.29	0.29	nan	0.35	0.29	0.25	0.30	0.30
Quick Serve Restaurant	0.29	0.29	nan	0.34	0.11	0.11	0.28	0.28
Residential Facility	0.28	0.28	nan	0.36	0.09	0.07	0.19	0.19
Rest Stop	0.18	0.18	nan	0.32	0.14	0.13	0.24	0.25
Retail	0.26	0.26	nan	0.32	0.13	0.12	0.16	0.16
Shopping Center	0.30	0.29	nan	0.31	0.18	0.17	0.28	0.28
Shopping Mall	0.28	0.28	nan	0.30	0.25	0.24	0.27	0.26
Sitdown Restaurant	0.25	0.25	nan	0.34	0.16	0.14	0.21	0.23
Spiritual Center	0.25	0.24	nan	0.33	0.13	0.14	0.26	0.26
Stadium	0.30	0.30	nan	0.36	0.14	0.13	0.34	0.34
Streetscape	0.34	0.34	nan	0.36	0.19	0.18	0.42	0.42
Student Center	0.22	0.22	nan	0.35	0.19	0.17	0.16	0.16
Theater	0.26	0.26	nan	0.34	0.23	0.23	0.18	0.18
Tourist Attraction	0.32	0.32	nan	0.35	0.16	0.16	0.27	0.26
Trail	0.35	0.35	nan	0.37	0.18	0.17	0.35	0.35
Transit Hub	0.37	0.37	nan	0.38	0.16	0.16	0.39	0.39
Transit Station	0.30	0.30	nan	0.35	0.07	0.07	0.32	0.32
University Dining	0.20	0.20	nan	0.30	0.13	0.13	0.16	0.16
University Health Center	nan	nan	nan	nan	0.18	0.13	nan	nan
University Housing	0.32	0.31	nan	0.34	0.08	0.07	0.29	0.29
University Recreation Center	0.15	0.15	nan	0.34	0.11	0.10	0.29	0.29
Warehouse	0.21	0.21	nan	0.34	0.18	0.14	0.20	0.21

Future Roadmap

As Motionworks continues to expand its data sources, visits and occupancy at stations in transit systems listed in the table below will see changes in future releases of Placecast™ by Date.

Transit System	Reason for Change
BART	Additional first-party data observations
City and County of San Francisco (Muni)	Rescaling based on additional station places
City of Charlotte North Carolina (Lynx)	Rescaling based on additional station places
County of Miami-Dade	Additional first-party data observations
Denton County Transportation Authority	Additional first-party data observations
King County (WA) Department of Metro Transit	Rescaling based on additional station places
Maryland Transit Administration	Additional first-party data observations
Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District	Additional first-party data observations
Portland TriMet	Additional first-party data observations
San Diego Metropolitan Transit System	Rescaling based on additional station places
Twin Cities (MN) Metro Transit	Rescaling based on additional station places

Quality Assurance Summary

The Quality Assurance table for Vintage 2023.12.10 represents the first time reporting only places on the cleared list (see Cleared Places by Place Type). The Vintage 2023.12.10 includes 431,075 cleared places.

Check Type	Vintage 2023.12.10	Vintage 2023.12.02
error_arrivals_age_impossible	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
error_arrivals_age_nonsensical	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
error_arrivals_negative	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
error_arrivals_summation	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
error_duplicate	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
error_dwell_arrival	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
error_dwell_departure	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
error_dwell_min_null	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
error_dwell_negative	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
error_dwell_resident	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
error_dwell_transfer	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
error_dwell_visitor	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
error_dwell_worker	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
error_missing	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
error_occupancy_age_impossible	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
error_occupancy_age_nonsensical	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
error_occupancy_negative	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
error_occupancy_summation	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
error_processes	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
error_zero_total_arrivals	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
error_zero_total_occupancy	0 (0%)	0 (0%)

Check Type Definitions

Check Type	Definition
error_arrivals_age_impossible	Child visits are greater than total visits
error_arrivals_age_nonsensical	Visits where children travel alone.
error_arrivals_negative	Any visits value less than zero.
error_arrivals_summation	Segmented visits summation does not sum to the total visits
error_duplicate	Duplicate records
error_dwell_arrival	Arriving passenger visits with no arrival dwell
error_dwell_departure	Departing passenger visits with no departure dwell
error_dwell_min_null	Record missing dwell threshold
error_dwell_negative	Dwell time is less than zero
error_dwell_resident	Resident visits with no resident dwell
error_dwell_transfer	Transferring passenger visits with no transfer dwell
error_dwell_visitor	Guest visits with no guest dwell
error_dwell_worker	Worker visits with no worker dwell
error_missing	The place is missing entirely from reporting
error_occupancy_age_impossible	Child occupancy is greater than total occupancy
error_occupancy_age_nonsensical	Occupancy where children are left alone
error_occupancy_negative	Any occupancy is less than zero
error_occupancy_summation	Segmented occupancy summation does not sum to total occupancy
error_processes	Two or more place processes for the same place
error_zero_total_arrivals	Segmented visits are greater than zero, but total visits are zero
error_zero_total_occupancy	Segmented occupancy is greater than zero, but total occupancy is zero

Release: 20231210_051556