Green Travel Exercise

I think that the way in which we have collected our information with time we had available was very beneficial. Doing an hour each from 8am till 4:30pm on a weekday meant that we could get a good overview of how busy the traffic in the car park on park campus. All the groups managed to split up, so that some went of and collected data on questionnaires. This managed us to get the work done twice as quick during that hour.
The data we managed to collect was what I really expected to be honest, that the peak times would be from 8-9. Also the fact that car sharing was a very rare quality to find, and how people didn't really care about their environmental impact. The findings of this investigation didn't really surprise me, it just proved my view and the general view of drivers parking at park campus. The obvious reason that the busiest time of the car park was between 8 and 9 is due to early lectures and students arriving early to get a parking space. The answer for the fact that car sharing was very rare would be down to the fact that its very hard to organise unless you have same time lectures as your friends, its very hard to organise car sharing with an unknown.

To make this investigation more accurate I would change the fact that we didn’t survey the times at the end of the day for example from 5-6 which I would expect to be quite busy due to lectures finishing and it being the end of the day. Also the fact that we only did this survey on one day of the week, it would be interesting to see the variation in findings over a week. Finding out the busiest and least busy day. Also you could do it in the summer, where you might compare and find that more people walk or ride a bike into university.