Chapter 2

Analysis

One of our hypotheses stated that Poinciana Drive would be the busiest street accessing the

roundabout. I heavily disagree with this statement as it is incorrect. If you look at Table 1, you

will see that Thompson Boulevard would be the busiest street as it has 2,257 cars in total.

Meanwhile, Poinciana Drive has in total 2,101 cars. Furthemore, 26% of the cars were present on

Thompson Boulevard. This may be because of the many business buildings such as Scotiabank

and the Passport Office that are present on this street. Most of the people traveling the

roundabout were most likely trying to access one of those buildings. Our second hypothesis

stated that Private Cars would be the most popular vehicle using the roundabout. I agree with this

statement as it is true. Based on Table 2, Private Cars have a total of 7,039 meaning that 84% of

the cars present were Private Cars. The reason may be how easy it is to get access to a Private

Car, compared to vehicles such as the Taxicab, Bus, Company Vehicles and Government

Vehicles. And many people prefer to own a car over vehicles such as a bicycle or motorcycle.

The final hypothesis states that during the hour 8-9 am, the roundabout is busier than 10-11 am.

Once again, I agree with this statement because of Table 3’s results which show that the 8-9 hour

has 4,518 cars and the 10-11 hour has 3,886 cars. This means that 54% of cars traveled the

roundabout during the 8-9 am hour. This may be because most schools and jobs start at 9 am.

Many people leave an hour before 9, which would be 8 am, to drop their kids off to school or go

to work. In the 10-11 am hour, many people are already at work, or have already dropped their

kids off at school so the road gets slightly less busy.