"And we'll be counting CARS!"
Background
Image of Vineville Ave. facing West |
For our traffic lab, we had to watch the vehicles that passed by a spot for a certain time. (In other words, we got our creeper licenses. Averi Hess was my partner and we watched the traffic from my sun porch on the corner of Vineville Ave. and Corbin Ave. We collected data for 5 minutes (there was a ton of traffic!) The following table shows what we saw. (It was hard to see what the people were doing, so most of the data does not have what the people are doing unless it was extremely clear what the drivers or passengers were doing.)
Data
Calculations
From our data, I broke down the data to see how many cars there were by color, type and direction. I found that there were 55 vehicles going west and 40 vehicles going east. There were 45 cars, 31 suvs, 17 trucks and 6 vans. There were 31 white, 25 silver, 12 black, 11 red, 7 blue, 4 grey, 3 of tan and green and 1 each of brown, yellow and gold vehicles.
From those, I calculated how many of each color and type would have passed by in an hour. I used the conversion 60/5=12 and then used 12*raw data = # per hour to find out the number of types of cars and color of cars that would pass by per hour.
The following Tables show the number of cars that passed by in five minutes and the number expected to pass by in an hour.
Cars per 5 mins and 1 hour by color |
Cars per 5 mins and 1 hour by style |
Conclusions
From the data, it can be concluded that there are a lot of cars that pass by my sunporch. Most of the cars are colored white, black or silver and there are more cars and suvs than trucks and vans.