Travel Survey

Joint blog- Adam and Faye
As a group in class, we planned what was to be included in the survey and how the traffic count data was to be collected.

Our group split up and two of us did the traffic count and the other two asked people the surveys. The two counting the traffic stood by the barriers at the entrance of the main student car park at Park campus. However due to our specific aims- only students’ cars were included in the count and lectures cars were distinguished by white permits. This was fairly difficult to do as the stickers were sometimes unable to be seen.
Some of the results may not be accurate as visitors may have been included in the traffic count and therefore not necessarily students.

The traffic count did not surprise me as not that many people car share- they seemed to travel alone. Also the time of day may have influenced peoples' decisions to arrive about half an hour prior to a lecture. For example someone may decide to arrive earlier to avoid rush hour and allow plenty of time for traffic or any incidents that may occur.

The surveys were quite conclusive about the fact people didn't think that students should have to pay to park during the day or night at Park campus.
However it did surprise me that more people commuted a further distance to the campus than was previously anticipated.

Another surprise from the surveys is that very few people that lived on campus parked cars in the car park- and in fact didn't even have one.
When we asked about the frequency of peoples methods of transport to the campus, car was an unsurprising winner however bus ranked highly among the results. This may be because bus fairs are subsidised when a student shows their student card.