Relationships Between Different Sets Of Data Groups Essay, Research Paper

Relationships between Different sets of Data Groups Traffic and Pedestrian Counts: These are two data

groups on which I expected to see a relationship. In Dorking on a weekday the

number of pedestrians and the number of vehicles flowing past a certain point

at any time did not seem to have any effect upon each other. Hypotheses 6 does

not appear to be true for this day. In Dorking at the weekend the same is true.

The number of pedestrians is solely affected by the shops that they want to go

to the traffic flowing past these shops has no effect on then whatsoever.

Looking at the counts for Wallington both on a weekday and at the weekend the

same pattern reveals itself. Traffic flows down the main roads and pedestrians

shop in the largest shops, when these are located next to each other, which is

the case for both Dorking and Wallington, there is no relationship between the

two. It may appear that where the traffic counts are higher the pedestrian

counts are also higher and vice versa, but this is just a coincidence of main

traffic routes running close to large shops, or less used traffic routes

running close to small shops which are not shopped at much.Land Use Survey and Pedestrian Counts: There is a

very clear relationship between these two sets of data. To see it you must

compare an isopleth map of Dorking pedestrian counts (p.87) to the Land Use

Survey map of Dorking (p.19) and an isopleth map of Wallington (p.84)? pedestrian counts to the Land Use Survey map

of Wallington (p.20) The most important being that in the PLVI of both centres

the pedestrian counts are always highest, because the shops than can afford to

pay the highest rent are located in the PLVI and they can only afford to pay

that high rent of they draw in many customers. You can also see that in Dorking

as the range and number of shops decreases so do the number of pedestrians,

moving out along the high street toward Reigate Road (as mentioned earlier in

the interpretation of land use survey pgs. 24 and 25) not only does the range

and number of shops decrease but so does the number of pedestrians, the case

may be that as these shops do not pay such high rent as the shops in the PLVI

they do not need to attract as many customers or, as these shops cannot attract

as many customers as shops in the PLVI, they cannot afford to pay the high rent

of the PLVI and therefore have to locate further away from it. Looking at

Wallington you can see thus is true as you move away from the top end of the

high street (Sainsbury?s end) towards the station, the range and number of

shops decreases and you find many more offices and with that the number of

pedestrians decreases, for the same reasons as in Dorking.