By using this method I am trying to find out the difference in pedestrians at the same place but at different times. I am trying to identify the busiest and quietest parts of Greenwich.
We could only count one side of the road because otherwise we would have collected wrong information as it would be too difficult and would have to estimate, which wouldn’t be accurate. At the time the weather was quite sunny but there was showers throughout the day which could have affected our results.
We collected the data as a group and filled in a table like the one below with all the essential information:
Site A
This site is near the entrance of the market so maybe more people would be heading towards the market after lunch or at the end of their lunch breaks. The market place always becomes busier towards the end of the day.
Site B & C
At 12:00 at this point it rained and there was a decrease in the amount of people at this point. Maybe at these two sites there was no where near where people could shelter and at the sites A and D there was more places where shelter could be taken.
Site D
This site is near a lot restaurant and food shops, so people coming from work would go to the restaurants at 12:00 and be in work at 1:00 (so maybe we could have done a pedestrian count at one as well).
Method 2
Traffic Count
This was a traffic count at the same sites as we did the pedestrian count on as well.
We stood at the corner of Nelson Road and counted the cars going towards Greenwich high road.
The limitations of this were that when there was a high amount f cars going, as data collection could be wrong. Also we could only count traffic going in one direction therefore our data didn’t include traffic flow through the location it was traffic flow in one direction through the location, whereas some other people may have counted traffic in both direction. This will be taken into consideration.
We did the traffic count to try and find out what transport people use to get around the centre of the town, and what the most popular form of transport is, around the 4 areas A, B, C, and D.
The forms of transport that we were counting are:
- Cars
- Bikes
- Motor Bikes
- Vans
- Lorries
- Buses/Coaches
Location A
Location B
Location C
Location D
Method 3
We did a land use survey of the centre of Greenwich. It was to find out what the land in Greenwich is used for, and proof that Greenwich is designed for tourists. As you can see by looking at the land use survey there is a large number of restaurants and shops, most of them have been built for tourist’s use and the shops have been.
The limitations of this method are that there wasn’t enough time to survey other buildings around Greenwich. This meant only a few shops and restaurants could be identified and also other types of building that weren’t shops and restaurants weren’t found that easily.
Method 4
This method was a questionnaire. A partner and myself went around the centre of Greenwich asking random people questions, some of which were based on the transport links. Here is a copy of the questionnaire.
Are you a resident or a tourist?
What age group are you?
0-20
21-40
41-60
61-80
What region do you live in?
How did you travel here?
Would you say that the transport links in and around
Greenwich are satisfactory for reliability?
Have you been to Greenwich before?
If so how many times?
Would you recommend Greenwich to a friend?
Why are you here?
Are you going to come back?
For what reason?
Do you think Greenwich has a pollution problem?
From what you have seen is there enough car parking around Greenwich?
Do you think that there are enough litterbins provided in Greenwich?
Do you think there are enough food outlets in Greenwich?
Asking people questions had a lot of limitations:
- Some people didn’t want to speak to us because they were busy
- Some people answered questions and if they didn’t know an answer they made up an answer
- The weather was unpleasant so not many people were out and willing answer questions.
- The time of day was when people were going to work
- It was quite early in the season, the weather wasn’t attracting tourists
We asked 13 people in total:
These people were residents, tourists and workers:
We asked some people: Do you think that Greenwich meets both Tourist and residents’ needs?
We also asked:
‘Do you think that there are enough litterbins provided in Greenwich’ and ‘Do you think Greenwich has a pollution problem?’
We asked everyone this question, here are the results of the questions:
We asked everyone the following question:
Method 5
Bi – Polar Analysis
This is an analysis which shows whether pavements are wide or narrow, street furniture is maintained and attractive or damaged and badly kept, the frontages are well maintained or poorly maintained, the pavements are clean or not and whether the four different locations are crowded or not and on what scale they are on e.g. if the area of only a little bit crowded it will be +1 and if its desolate then it’s –2 and if it’s extremely crowded then it’ll be +2. We hope to find out how each of these locations are kept. The limitations of this experiment are what part of the location that you identify.
KEY
+2 – Extremely
+1- Quite
0
-1- Quite
-2- Extremely
Location A
This is showing that the pavements are reasonably wide, the street furniture isn’t especially clean or dirty, the frontage is quite well maintained, the pavements aren’t clean or dirty and the area isn’t busy nor is it empty,
Location B
This is showing that the pavements are reasonably wide, the street furniture is extremely clean, the frontage is quite well maintained, the pavements aren’t clean or dirty and the area isn’t busy nor is it empty
Location C
This is showing that the pavements are extremely wide, in relation to the pedestrian count this is the busiest location that we compared, to the council have obviously taken this into consideration and made the pavements wide at this area and this analysis has shown that this area isn’t crowded so the pavements are wide; the street furniture is quite dirty, the frontage isn’t well or not maintained, the pavements aren’t clean or dirty and the area isn’t busy nor is it empty,
Location D
This is showing that the pavements are quite wide, the street furniture is quite dirty, the frontage is quite well maintained, the pavements aren’t clean or dirty and the area isn’t busy nor is it empty.
I think that the whole of Greenwich is generally busy but as the pavements have been made wide it doesn’t appear to be crowded because the pavements have been well managed.
Method 6
This is an accurate method to compare the urban area of Greenwich, Bromley High Street and my own home street. 0 means positive to 8, which means negative for each of the criteria.
The lower the number means the quieter the place you are assessing is. Greenwich is near the centre or a city, Bromley is a large shopping centre where people from all over the area come, and my home street is a close in a village. Looking quickly at the results I would say Bromley is high in vandalism and the presentation of pavements and roads etc. is poor compared to Greenwich because more people live there and visit so the council take great care to attract more tourists but Bromley isn’t a tourists attraction it’s a local shopping town and the shops attract customers not tourists, Greenwich does that. Restrictions of this method may be that if you don’t live near Bromley high street you cant compare them, and if you take someone else’s results they may view things in a certain way to how you do.
Method 7
This is a building survey comparing the buildings in Greenwich High Street, Bromley High Street and my home street. This is an analysis to compare the quality of the building work. Buildings in the richer area are most likely to be well maintained, while signs of decay are indications than an area is poorer.
This may be difficult because you cant see the roofs of the houses to say whether they are rotting etc. and even if you could see the roofs then you may no0t know what rotting looks like. I did this method over a period of 3 days.
Below is a table that gives a scale of which to score each of the 8 criteria with different values.
This is a ranking of the physical conditions in my home street, Bromley high street and Greenwich high street compared.
If what a stated above was correct about the richer the area then the more maintained the building would be. 4 is a very good mark for an area as large as Greenwich. My area is very small and maintained very well because of this, and the fact there are little buildings, therefore Greenwich being maintained in the way that it is with as many building it has is excellent.
Method 8: Cost Survey
This survey shows how different things cost various prices when sold in different places in London. I think that the price of things affect how they are set up for tourists and whether these products are aimed for tourists to buy. I think the more expensive things are the more they are likely to be sold in a high tourist area, because tourists are the main income of that particular area.
This shows that 2 out of three things are more expensive in Greenwich than they are in a town or a village. The ice-cream and hot chocolate are both things that tourists are likely to but because they stop and see the sites whilst eating an ice-cream or drinking some hot chocolate, but you would usually say chocolate bars are the things that tourists would buy.
I carried out this method on the same day. The problems are that the shop I went into is a garage and usually these are slightly more expensive so maybe I could have gone o the same type of shop. Also thy may not have had the same quality product in the shops that I went into to collect the data.
