CAO BO PatternSummary

ISSS608 Visual Analytics and Applications_Vast Challenge_Mini Challenge1

Background

Data Preparation

Visualization

Pattern Summary

Comments

Question1: Daily Patterns

Time

General Active Hours

1) Most of the visitors start their journies from 5 am and leave at 19 pm, with peak hours for visiting is roughly between 8 am to 17 pm.

2) There is no fully closed hour for this natural park, visitors get access to the entrances whenever they want.

Active hours for park service trucks

1) The active hours for park service trucks mainly focus between 6 am and 6 pm, while they have a different working schedule by weekdays. From Sunday to Saturday, rangers taken one more hour for rest except Friday.

2) As for the camping service time for those trucks, they only serve after 6 am and finish their works in campgrounds at 22 pm.

Active hours for campers

Most of the traffic detected in campgrounds happened between 5 am to 22 pm which is the opening hours for those campgrounds except camping4.

Area

Active areas for no-campers

Those visitors who just pass through the preserve called no-campers, including 2 axle bus, 3 axle bus, and 4 axle trucks, namely the oversize vehicles. Records showed in gate-sector mean those 4-axle tricks trespassed into the campgrounds which will discuss in unusual patterns.

Route

List of checkpoints & routes by traffic Load

Following list the most popular checkpoints and checkpoints by their traffic loads, those 7 checkpoints and 6 routines show clear differences with other ones in traffic loads.

Checkpoints:

1. General-Gate7
2. Ranger-Stop0
3. Ranger-Stop2
4. General-Gate2
5. General-Gate1
6. General-Gate4
7. General-Gate5

Routines:

1. General gate2<->Rangerstop0
2. Ranger stop0<->Rangerstop2
3. Ranger stop2<->Generalgate1
4. General gate4<->Generalgate7
5. General gate4<->Generalgate1
6. General gate5<->Generalgate2

List of routes for passing through

Those vehicles that just pass through the preserve follow some certain routes as listed:

• Entrance0<->entrance3
• Entrance2<->entrance4
• Entrance1<->general-gate7<->entrance3
• Entrance0<->general-gate7<-> general-gate4<-> entrance1

Question2: Multiple Days Patterns

Peak Season

The traffic size increase happened since May when the weather is getting warmer, and then reach the peak in July.When the weather is getting colder, the number of visitors decrease and then rise again till the next May in 2016.

Traffic size by Weekdays

More visitors during the weekends. The number of visitors( mainly contributed by 2 axle cars/motorcycles, 2 axle trucks and 3 axle trucks) increased on Friday and drops by the end of weekends