In the bleak cold car park, frosty all around, stood our group, not forgotten.
We had to conduct our traffic survey, on Park Campus, University of Northampton. We split ourselves in to two groups, Luke, Brianna and Hannah interviewed people, on a random sampling method, asking those whom they met outside the Senate building to complete the questionnaires on students use of cars on the campus and their attitudes towards other forms of transport. Katy and Mary-Anne stood at the car park 3 entrance, where the new barriers have been installed. Every car that drove in to the car park was counted in the survey, and with the barriers now being installed, allowed for easy counts of the amounts of passengers in each vehicle.
We had to conduct our traffic survey, on Park Campus, University of Northampton. We split ourselves in to two groups, Luke, Brianna and Hannah interviewed people, on a random sampling method, asking those whom they met outside the Senate building to complete the questionnaires on students use of cars on the campus and their attitudes towards other forms of transport. Katy and Mary-Anne stood at the car park 3 entrance, where the new barriers have been installed. Every car that drove in to the car park was counted in the survey, and with the barriers now being installed, allowed for easy counts of the amounts of passengers in each vehicle.
Luke thought that the data he collected through the interviews conducted, came across as random and not a very fair reflection of the situation that has occurred on Park Campus. Where as Mary-Anne believed that the traffic count did record accurate data, reflecting the pattern of traffic on campus. The findings didn’t cause much surprise, as the results were expected. Through the analysis, there may be surprises due to the look over all of the data together.
If the survey was to be conducted again, then it would be suggested that the car count was conducted over a full day, with no gaps in the collection of data. Maybe extend the questionnaires to electronic, to be emailed through the universities email server, to not only save paper, but hopefully question all car drivers and none drivers, but this would be A LOT of data to analyse and synthesis.
Hopefully the data will enable to make accurate reflections and suggestions on the University of Northampton’s Green Travel Plan.
References
Northampton University's Green Travel Plan
http://www2.northampton.ac.uk/estates/home/sustainability/travel-and-transport/green-travel-plan
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Some interesting reflections on the survey. Were you surprised at the number of sole-occupant vehicles entering the car park? Did you gain a sense of why people choose to drive to campus?
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