The first task I completed was a traffic count. We counted at two locations and seperated our results so we counted each type of vehicle seperatly. This showed us how much traffic there is in the CBD.
The second task I completed was a measure of of traffic noise. We used a recording machine which measured the decibles of noise and produced graphs. This showed how loud the traffic is in Chester and whether or not current traffic management is working.
The third task I did was calculating the traffic speed. We measured 100 metres from one point and timed how long it would take for a car to get from one point to another. We avoided places where there was a form of traffic management as vehicles are slower by them and our results would be biased. We did this task to see if traffic was slow in the CBD which would show that traffic management systems were working.
The forth task I did was a count of the free, taken and total spaces in two car parks. One was a carpark close to the CBD called Little Roodee and the other one was the Park and Ride near Chester Zoo. We did this task to show whether or not car parks are fuller on the edge of the city.
The fifth task I did was a questionaire. We asked six people these questions about what they thought of traffic in Chester. The eight questions asked where:
*Are you in Chester to work/shop/sightsee?
*Did you travel by car, bus, train, cycle or walk?
*If YES to car, did you use the park and ride or a town centre car park?
*How much will parking cost you today?
*How important is it to keep Chester's city centre traffic free?
*How important is this pedestrianised area to you?
*For YES to park and ride, was your main reason?
*For NO to park and ride what was you main reason?
*If Chester City Council introduced charges for bringing private cars into the city centre how would you agree with it?
We did this task to find out what peoples views on traffic management are.
The final task I did I had to make up myself. I chose to look at where all the tax disks on the cars were bought from. I looked at around fifty tax disks in the Park & Ride and wrote down where they were bought from. I did this task so that I could see where the cars in Chester were coming from.
