CHARLOTTE -- Center City planners will spend the better part of Tuesday conducting uptown's first pedestrian count study. It's a joint effort with the department of transportation to help city planners.

About a dozen counters have been placed at 17 locations throughout the city, including three locations at the Overstreet Mall and they're just counting the number of people who walk by.

There are three goals to the study: the first is to recruit retailers to the area, they'd also like to predict the future pedestrian needs as well as coordinate the efforts of the transit system.

"Now we'll have better data to understand the market a little bit better and obviously this data will be available for any retailer, for any researchers," said planning analyst Robert Ferrin.

The study will continue through the day and more will be held this week. Once they're compiled, the results will be placed online. Center City Partners expects that to happen in May.