ADVANCED HIGHER GEOGRAPHY
Geographic Methods and Techniques
LESSON STARTER
 Try
and think of as many different
methods that you know to gather
information in Geography.


(Hint – think about gathering technique
questions from S3-S5)
Write them down in your jotter.
LESSON AIMS

To find out how to properly conduct a traffic
survey.

To find out why we would want to conduct a
traffic survey and the questions that it can help
us answer.
TASK 1
 Talk
with each other and try to come up
with reasons for conducting a traffic
survey.
 Write
them down in your jotter.
find out how
much
RTo
EASONS
FOR
CONDUCTING A
traffic flows through a
TRAFFIC
SURVEY
certain
area. .
This can then tell us many
things such as:
How dangerous the area
may be for traffic
accidents.
How much congestion an
area may have.
How much business and
area of retail may get from
people passing through.
If an area could benefit
from speed bumps or
traffic lights.
How much noise and air
pollution an area might
face.
How high the car
ownership is in an area.
CONDUCTING A TRAFFIC SURVEY
 What
factors do you have to take into
account?
 Using
the paper in front of you make a
mind map of everything that you think
you need to take into account.
What different types of traffic
will you record?
Where are you going to
record your data?
When are you going to record
your data?
Are you going to record the
amount of pedestrians in the
street?
How long will you spend
recording the traffic at one
time?
Should you mention the state
of the street? Does it have
pot holes etc.
Should you measure the
speed the traffic is moving
at?
Should some vehicles be
valued more than others.
TRAFFIC SURVEY
 We
are going to conduct a traffic
survey in the local area.
 It
is your task to plan and carry out
the traffic survey.
OTHER INFORMATION WE COULD GATHER

The noise pollution of an area due to traffic.

How would we do this?

Decibel meter – this records the level of noise
in an area.

(We were going to go out and try this but the
weather is not really good enough)
SPEED OF TRAFFIC IN AN AREA.
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How would we do this?
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Measure a set distance between two points.
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Use a stopwatch to time how long a car takes to
get through those points.
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OTHER TECHNIQUES
 You
 You
could take photographs of the area.
could then analyse and annotate
these at a later date. Highlighting the
main important points.