I will be explaining how I conducted my investigation and why I chose this method. Firstly, to perform my investigation, I chose to ask people in Birmingham City Centre, questions about traffic congestion and its effects.

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Surbjit Singh 10SK

 

GCSE Geography Coursework - Method

In this section, I will be explaining how I conducted my investigation and why I chose this method. Firstly, to perform my investigation, I chose to ask people in Birmingham City Centre, questions about traffic congestion and its effects. I also did a traffic count on Broad Street, to see what kind of transport went into Broad Street and how many was there of each type.

I used one primary collection technique. This was asking questions to the public in the City Centre on 2 consecutive days. I asked 12 questions regarding traffic congestion. I gave them choices of answering ( A,B,C,D e.t.c) for only a few questions such as Age. I asked these questions in places such as Coperation Street and around Broad Street. Since these places had a vast number of people compared to other, I used this method because it was the easiest and quickest way of asking the allotted people I had. But aswell as this, I asked people for their own views such as this question, ‘’ How do you think the problem can be solved?’’. I asked questions like these so that I could get a cross reference of what people would most likely think overall would solve the problem of congestion. In this way I would use the answers to give thoughts about traffic congestion and I’d give solutions to cutting down congestion.

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I planned my questions carefully and thought about keeping it simple. I gave a variety of open and closed questions method, I chose to use the closed question method because I wanted to write answers down quickly. This meant that I could ask people more quickly. In addition, I used open questions because I wanted the public’s view on congestion.  I used questions which were fairly simple but answered key questions relating to the coursework question. In my questionnaire, I asked the questions about traffic congestion such as, 1. Do you think Birmingham City Centre is congested? 2. Do you ...

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