The team at DJ&A worked with the U.S. National Park Service to design and conduct a study of parkwide vehicle travel routes and site-level traffic, parking, trail use, and attraction site crowding in Arches National Park. The team collected and processed all study data to produce statistical summaries, estimate statistical models, and program a simulation model of relationships among transportation, visitor use, congestion, and crowding in the park.
The team helped the park define management scenarios to implement in the simulation model to analyze transportation and visitor use management strategies.
Key Services
- Study design and methods development
- Onsite data collection
- Survey research
- Statistical analysis
- Simulation modeling
- User capacity analysis
- Visitor use management framework applications
- Technical writing
Value Added:
Our results provided a data-driven basis to inform a monitoring strategy as well the Arches National Park Timed-entry System that has been in successful operation since 2022.
