Travel survey! :)

It was a cold Thursday, stopping people to complete surveys was a hard task, but still we managed it! :) We asked a range of people throughout the campus their travel arrangements and views to and from the uni. The survey was effective, it only took a minute per person to complete, but still covered all areas we were interested in. We tried to gain a range of views from students at different locations across the campus, and we managed to achieve this (a cross section of years, ages and genders). It seemed quite a simple task to carry out in an hour, and we could have completed more questionnaires in the time allotted.

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We found that a large majority of people asked who lived off campus, drove to uni as an individual, this wasn't surprising as a class survey showed similar results earlier in the year. About half people asked felt concerned about their impact upon the environment, however very few people actually took measures to reduce their impact, as it was too time consuming or costly. It was also surprising that we didn't come across any disabled people in our questionnaire asking, as we asked a sample of over 60 people between us.

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As a group i felt that we worked effectively, we managed to complete all the questionnaires and do the car count in the allotted time slot. It would have been an improvement though, if we had met up the day before to collect any materials from Faith, instead of being disorganised so she had to come in early on the Thursday!

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If i were to repeat the questionnaire, I would have trailed the questionnaire with a small focus group to check understanding and clarity of questions. I would also have made the study longitudinal, so I could gain a more accurate perspective