ISSS608 Sanghavy VISUALIZATION

Traffic Patterns of Life through the Boonsong Lekagul Nature Preserve

"Question 1: Daily patterns"

The 'Patterns of Daily Life' analyses identifying the repeating patterns by individuals or groups on a daily basis.

1. Peak hours for the park by Gate type

From Figure1, we can see that 6AM to 6PM is the peak hour in the park. General gates, ranger stops, entrances and gates have activity throughout 24 hours of the day. While, activity at Camping site resumes at 5AM and continues until 12PM and at Ranger base, the vehicle movement is stopped during 3AM until 6PM.

1. Peak hours for the park by Gate type

From Figure1, we can see that 6AM to 6PM is the peak hour in the park. General gates, ranger stops, entrances and gates have activity throughout 24 hours of the day. While, activity at Camping site resumes at 5AM and continues until 12PM and at Ranger base, the vehicle movement is stopped during 3AM until 6PM.

2. Most and least active gates

The most and least active gates for each gate type is:

Gate type	Most Active	Least active
General Gates	General-gate7	General-gate0
Ranger Stops	Ranger-stop0	Ranger-stop1
Entrance	Entrance3	entrance1
Camping	Camping8	Camping1
Gate	Gate8	Gate1

Among all the gates, gate 0 and gate 1 has the lowest activity and the top 5 most active gates are: General gate 7, Ranger stop 0, Ranger stop 2 General gate 2 and General gate 1

• The most active gates can be seen in the below picture
• All these gates show the least activity for Thursdays and most activity on Sundays for:

1) General gates 2) Camping 3) Ranger stops

• But the most activity for 'Entrances' is on Fridays

• While 'Ranger base' and 'Gates' are the ones with lowest activity among the gate types and these 2 gates have similar vehicle count almost on all weekdays.
• Except on Tuesdays and Thursdays there is a dip in the number of vehicle going to the Ranger base

Vehicle Activities

The park vehicles have specific operation timings for different days of the week. The non – operation timings are: * Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday – 2-6 am * Thursday, Friday, Sunday – 3-6 am * Saturday – 1-6 am

The 3 Axle bus does not operate on particular timings on 2 days: * Sundays : 8 - 10 AM * Tuesdays : 4 - 6 PM

2 Axle cars or motorcycles is the most frequent to the park followed by 2 Axle trucks and 3 Axle trucks and Park vehicles and the less frequent vehicles would be the 2 Axle and 3 Axle buses and 4 Axle trucks.

Peak Hours

• The park is mainly active from 6AM until 5PM on all days. It is mainly active for the vehicles: 2 Axle cars or motorcycles, 2 Axle and 3 Axle trucks. Though Park vehicle's activity starts from 6AM, it is most active only from 11AM till 5PM.

• Though the number of 2 Axle cars or motorcycles decreases by 7PM, there is sudden rise at 10PM decreasing to the lowest by midnight

"Patterns of Long period"

The 'Patterns of Long period' analyses depend on recognizing repeating patterns of activities by individuals or groups over a longer period (multiple days).

Active Gates - High and low

1) The park is highly active in the months from June to September having vehicle counts ranging from 1700 to around 4000 vehicles in the gates and less active from October through May. The gates that are most active in June to September are: * Entrances * General gate * Camping * Ranger stops

The park activity is highest in the month of July and the gates with the maximum activity (that is vehicle count):

While activities in Gates and Ranger base for all months are almost close to each other and has the lowest activity of all gates having vehicle count ranging from 60 to 100.

"Unusual Patterns"

Analysis to find out patterns that differs from the ones that are already observed or anomalies.

Unusual patterns at gates

• 4 axle truck visited the ranger-stop3 and ranger-stop6 at the same time 23 times via gate3 and gate5 and gate6 respectively
• The ranger-stop1 was accessed six times by 2 Axle cars (or motorcycles) on the whole but these vehicles were not recorded at Gate2, which is the only way to get to ranger-stop1.
• General-gate0 was accessed twice by Park vehicles. Could be for any special VIP passes
• 2 axle cars have 2 extra timestamps at general-gate 6 after camping at camping7
• 1 park vehicle went back to ranger-stop7 without using gate7 or it could have went back due to some reasons

4 Axle truck at Gates

• The 4 axle trucks enter the 'Gates': gate3 - gate5 - gate6 on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
• This truck could enter these gates in order to make a stop or deliver something at Ranger stops '0, 2, 3 and 6'

• On other days like Monday, Friday and Saturday, the truck follows the same route as in the image. Except for Sundays, it does not pass through the General gate5. Maybe it is closed on Sundays.

• On all days except Wednesday the truck is active at Ranger stops at any time of day, but on Wednesday, the truck does not move through Ranger stops for from 1AM - 3AM