NLR OpenPATH is a health & fitness app developed by National Laboratory of the Rockies.
Download Statistics
NLR OpenPATH has been downloaded 5.7 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 30 times.
User Ratings
NLR OpenPATH is rated 2.89 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 27 ratings.
App Information
NLR OpenPATH is FREE to download. The APK download size is 24.21 MB. The latest version available is 2.1.3. The last update was on April 3, 2026.
Technical Requirements
The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play June 2022.
Description
The National Laboratory of the Rockies' Open Platform for Agile Trip Heuristics (NLR OpenPATH, https://nlr.gov/openpath) enables people to track their travel modes—car, bus, bike, walking, etc.—and measure their associated energy use and carbon footprint.
The app empowers communities to understand their travel mode choices and patterns, experiment with options to make them more sustainable, and evaluate the results. Such results can inform effective transportation policy and planning and be used to build more sustainable and accessible cities.
NLR OpenPATH informs individual users about the impact of their choices, and also makes aggregated, community-level data on mode shares, trip frequencies, and carbon footprints available via a public dashboard.
NLR OpenPATH incorporates continuous data collection and analysis via a smart phone app backed by a server and automated data processing. Its open nature enables transparent data collection and analysis, while allowing it to be configured for individual programs or studies.
On first install, the app does not collect or transmit data. Once you click the link or scan the QR code to join a given study or program, you will be asked to consent to data collection and storage before the app begins functioning. If you are not part of a partner community or program but are simply interested in quantifying your individual carbon footprint, you can join the NLR-run open-access study. In the aggregate, your data might be used as the control for experiments run by our partners.
At its core, the app represents an automatically sensed travel diary, constructed from background sensed location and accelerometer data. You can annotate the diary with semantic labels as requested by a given program administrator or researcher.
Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. Therefore, the app automatically turns off the GPS if you are not moving. This significantly reduces the battery drain caused by location tracking. The app results in ~ 5% battery drain for up to 3 hours of travel per day.
Recent changes: - Add functionality to automatically update deployment config - Persist UI state in background for 5 minutes - Bug fixes
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Was a little clunky, but recently I can't modify my modes. Just says "Mode (scroll for more)" but I can't scroll. I get my mode right half the time, but never seems to learn (I bike commute most days, after 50+ times, it still isn't sure if it is a commute or not). I'm hoping my county gets good data from it...
★☆☆☆☆Starr Bortz· Apr 16, 2025
Keeps crashing...installed yesterday and since install my phone battery is draining and my phone is lagging, apps keep crashing, and I keep dropping calls. Don't know if it's connected, but it would be a weird coincidence...never had any issues before. Deleted.
★★☆☆☆Robert Daugherty· Jul 12, 2023
App is missing a lot of my trips, or sensing/showing incomplete or inaccurate data. Cause may be as I transition from Wi-Fi (home) to destination (mobile data). No ability to correct sensed start/end trip points, or to add/modify/delete trip segments.
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