TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE PAGES

Project Title

Introduction

Method of Data Collection

Presentation of Data

Analysis of Data

Discussion of Findings

Conclusion

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 INTRODUCTION
Public transportation is used by people to travel from in the town of Port
Antonio to the community of Anchovy Gardens. It is observed that among the
taxi drivers there is a preferred type of vehicle that is used by most of them.
This study seeks to investigate the type of vehicle that is preferred for public
transportation in Anchovy Gardens.

The objectives are as followed:

1. To find out what type of vehicle is mostly used for public transportation
in Anchovy Gardens

2. To find out what percentage of taxi drivers use this type of vehicle

3. To find out why this is preferred over most vehicles

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 METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION

In order to collect the necessary information for this research, the researcher
conducted a survey among ten (10) taxi drivers. During the survey the
respondents were asked what type of vehicle they preferred and what influenced
their reasoning. With the information gathered, the researcher did an analysis of
the data to determine:

 What type of car do you own?

 What influenced you to buy this type of car?
 How long do you own this vehicle?

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 PRESENTATION OF DATA

GRAPH SHOWING THE TYPES OF CARS USED FOR PUBLIC

TRANSPORTATION
3.5

2.5
Number of people

2
Types of cars
1.5

0.5

0
Toyota Wish Toyota Probox Mitsubishi AD Honda Stream Toyota Carolla
Wagon Kingfish

Types of cars

Figure 1 shows the response to the question “What type of car do you own?” It
is observed that the Toyota Wish is owned by two (2) taxi drivers, the Toyota
Probox and Mitsubishi AD Wagon are owned by three (3) drivers each and the
Honda Stream and Toyota Corolla Kingfish are owned by one (1) taxi drivers
each.

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 GRAPH SHOWING WHY TAXI DRIVERS PREFER A SPECIFIC
Reason for choosing a specific car CAR

Requires less maintenance

Use less fuel

Fast Number of people

Seating capacity

0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Number of people

Figure 2 shows the response to the question “Why did you choose this specific
type of car?” One (1) taxi driver said because it requires less maintenance, two
(2) taxi drivers said because it uses less fuel and is fast and five (5) taxi drivers
said because of the seating capacity.

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 CHART SHOWING HOW LONG THE
VEHICLE IS OWNED

Less than 1 year

20% 1-5 years
5+ years
50%

30%

Figure 3 is a chart showing the response to the question “How long do you own this vehicle?” 20% of
the respondents said less than 10 years, 30% of the respondents said 1-5 years and the remaining
50% said 5+ years.

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