Traffic Patterns Lab

Location: Mercer Village-Barnes & Noble Bookstore

Elapsed Time: 10 minutes

Almost 75% of the vehicles that drove by consisted of one driver and no passengers. Over 50% of the vehicles were classified as "small" vehicles, and 75% of drivers were not multitasking.

If a rate of 76 vehicles every 10 minutes continued for an entire hour, 456 vehicles would pass by Mercer Village in an hour. Tables 1-3 below display the values recorded during lab.

Table 1.
# of People in Vehicle	# of Vehicles
1	56
2	15
3	3
4	1
5	0
6	0
7	0
8	1
TOTAL:	76

Table 2.
Vehicle Type	# of    Vehicles
Small	41
Large	15
Truck	10
Van	2
Semi	3
Motorcycle	0
Trailers	0

Table 3.
Multitasking	# of Drivers
None	57
Eating	0
Texting	5
Drinking Beverage	1
Smoking	2
Talking on Phone	6