Our travel survey, my thoughts

So on the 22nd of January we carried out our travel survey in the university of Northampton Park campus and it was luckily a success and luckily none of us got run over! My group did the survey from 3:30 to 4:30 and I thought that it went very well as we managed to get our data in with relative ease and we managed to get all of our surveys taken unlike some groups! The data from the car count was also very good and was collected with speed and luckily a lot of people came through the gates. I think that the surveys where very well carried out as I was on the surveys and the people I spoke to were very helpful and were quite willing to talk to us as they walked past even though there were some people running for the bus! The methods that we used were okay as we had discussed them before in class so that we knew what we were doing so we were sure of what was to be done and we had no disasters or fatalities! There people at the gates to the uni were ok with the people there counting their cars as they went into the uni and some ever stopped for help in getting their cars into the car park when they hadn’t got cards or their cards failed. We managed to get a broad range of data out of our surveys and the car count was very productive and there was luckily a lot of car s that came through and a lot of the cars had more than one person in the so that was very helpful. There was very little that I think we could have added to the task at hand as all the things went very well and there were no accidents and there were only minor problems with the survey. Some people did complain of the weather conditions as some of the morning people had to face very heavy rain while the latter groups (including our own) were out there in biting cold and many of us by the ends where to cold to concentrate on our surveys but we pulled through. The end result was a very well conducted survey with only a few minor hiccups in our collection of our data and there was only a few minor hiccups in the planning process as there was quite a bit of arguing over when we should do the survey and how we should do the survey but this issues where sorted out in the end and it was a very interesting day for all concerned.