The Ray Diagram
Ray diagram-looking at the Park and Ride
From looking at the ray diagram it’s clearly obvious that most people using the Park and Ride originated from the north of Nottingham. There were really only two exceptions. The first was the people who came from Derby to use it. There was only one person from Derby using the Park and Ride and their purpose for going was to shop. Maybe that person prefers the Park and Ride rather than the Bus station, or that the Park and Ride might take that person straight to where she wants to be. The rest of the people who travel from Derby use the Bus station. The other exception was Ilkeston, but that was only a little bit south of where the Park and Ride were located. There were probably much less from the south than the north mainly because the Park and Ride were closer to where they live. There is also two more Park and Ride stations to the south of Nottingham.
Information on the Park and Ride:
Average journey: 34 minutes
Shortest journey: 5 minutes
Longest journey: 180 minutes
Ray diagram- looking at the Bus station
From looking at the ray diagram I can see that most people using the Bus station originated from the south of Nottingham. Their was quite a few more exceptions this time compared with the Park and Ride, as their were eight different cases of people travelling from the north, inorder to get to the Bus station. They were from Mansfield, Southwell, Calverton, Rainworth, Newstead, Hucknall, Arnold and Ilkeston. There were probably more people coming from the south because it was closer to them. In the North of Nottingham there is a bus station at Victoria centre.
Information on the Bus station:
Average journey: 29 minutes
Shortest journey: 5 minutes
Longest journey: 90 minutes
Conclusion
Using my spreadsheet of information I have been able to show where people travel from in order to get to the Park and Ride and also this also includes the journeys for the public who go to the Bus station. The Ray diagram clearly shows the direction of the journeys into Nottingham on the Park and Ride and Bus station. The reason for me choosing to do a Ray diagram was because it shows the length of journey, the location of places, origin of travel and comparison between bus station and park and ride. But unfortunately the ray diagram doesn’t show frequency. So by looking at it I don’t know how many people have travelled from the same places.
By looking at the graph I can see that most of the journeys of the Park and Ride originated mainly from the north of the city, and the journeys of the bus station originated mainly from the south. This could be because of the location of the respective sites. There were two exceptions for the Park and Ride and seven for the Bus station
Reasons for coming to Nottingham graphs
The purpose of these graphs are just to show why the users of the Park and Ride and the Bus station come from out of Nottingham to use either of them. The information was gathered from the information spreadsheet, which tells me what each person has come to Nottingham for. The graphs tell me the reasons for coming into Nottingham and the frequency for each reason.
Reasons for coming to Nottingham graph- looking at the Park and Ride
From looking at the graph for the Park and ride, I can see that there are seven different reasons for coming into Nottingham. They are:
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University- this was four peoples purpose
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Shopping- this was 21 peoples purpose
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Business- this was 1 persons purpose
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Hospital- this was 1 persons purpose
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Register Death- this was 1 persons purpose
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Visit- this was 1 persons purpose
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Work- this was 9 peoples purpose
If we had come at a different time then my results would be different and it would effect my graph some what. Firstly if we had come at a later time their would be less people going shopping as the shops would be shutting soon, we might see more people who’s purpose was to work as they might of now finished. Also if we had come later, all those reasons with only one person doing it, might not of come up again, as the person going to hospital would already have been and the death would of being registered. We would also get many new reasons for coming.
