Traffic Survey

On the 22nd January we conducted a traffic survey of the number of people entering the University Park Campus Car Park, between 11:00 - 12:00. Before, on the 15th, we discussed, as a class group, the methods we would be using. The method we chose to use was to count both the number of cars and the number of passengers in each. To make sure the survey could last most of the day, data was recorded between 8:00am until 4:30pm. Each group's session lasted one hour, with half an hour break inbetween each group. The group also carried out a questionaire to collect students thoughts about sustainable methods of transport

We found that more people came into the car park closer to 12:00, this could have been because they had lectures which started at 12:00. Before we carried out the survey we thought that it would be busier closer to midday.

If we did the data collection again, we would have made each group record data for an hour and a half. This would mean there would not be half an hour gaps in the overall data collection. Also, we would have allocated better groups so that there were fair numbers as we only had two group members, so we were limited as to how many questionnaires we could ask.

By Josh and Freddy.