Describe the Implementation Progress

In our last team blog, we described our implementation plan. Our current progress followed the plan well in the past two weeks. We have assigned individual tasks for each segment of the poster and started working on it on Tuesday, March 19.  By Sunday, March 24 we should get everything done for the poster. Particularly, Jason, Michael, Robin, and Tony will be working on the poster while Luke and Sunny will be editing the report and poster.

For the poster, we all finished of our individual research and we are ready to print out the figures and its respective brief summaries. We are planning to meet this Sunday to complete the visual of the poster.

For the report, we finished the vast majority of the main body. We still need to write the introduction and conclusion of the report and complete the final editing.

Identify what has gone well and what needed extra work

Our research into each part assigned has been completed as well as the main sections of our report. These blogs have also gone well as we strive to keep up to date and add fresh new perspectives after each post. We still have work to do with our poster. We have separated parts for the poster so that each of us can research images and ideas, but it still needs work so that it can be put together nicely. Also, the introduction and conclusion of our report still needs to be completed, and final editing will need to be conducted.

Describe Project Outcomes

Our project outcomes include an eye-pleasing poster as well as a technical report that details the situations in which rumble strips should be implemented. The technical report will also contain a section where we recommend the cases in which rumble strips should and should not be implemented, as well as which type of rumble strip. These recommendations come from the research conducted into rumble strips.

In this week we are trying to fine more relevant pictures to put on the poster

Highway 16 east of Tete Jaune Cache.

Project implementation plan

Over the last couple weeks, we held group meetings to discuss our report template. As of now, our report will be divided into the following sections (subject to review and changes):

• 1.0 Introduction
• 2.0 Description and Categorization
  • 3.1 Rumble Strips
  • 3.2 Road Condition Variables
• 3.0 Analysis of Variables – Disadvantages, Problems, or Benefits
  • 3.1 Steepness (Variable 1)
  • 3.2 Obstructions and Barriers (Variable 2)
  • 3.3 Road Geometry (Variable 3)
  • 3.4 Shoulder Width (Variable 4)
• 4.0 Importance of Rumble Strip options for each Variable5.0 Results and Discussion of Exceptions
  • 4.1 Steepness (Variable 1)
  • 4.2 Obstructions and Barriers (Variable 2)
  • 4.3 Road Geometry (Variable 3)
  • 4.4 Shoulder Width (Variable 4)
• 6.0 Rumble Strip Code and Standards
• 7.0 Conclusive Summary

As a group, we decided that our research and content of the report can be portrayed by dividing our information into two independent categories: rumble strips and road conditions.

There are many significant differences in rumble strips including: the position of rumble strips, the type of rumble strips, etc. There are also many significant differences in road conditions (variables) including: steepness, obstruction and barriers, and shoulder length.

The purpose of this categorization is so that we can effectively compare the problems, disadvantages, and benefits of each particular road condition to a particular rumble strip type. There is because there is no one best rumble strip design because there are various, significant differences in road conditions.

In the end, we will be input these categories into a matrix and generate different combinations. To find the problems, disadvantages, and benefits of a particular combination, we look to similar real world examples and already implemented rumble strips.

On-site Activities:
Since we don’t have the resources and equipments to conduct surveys of our own, our research will help us investigate the combinations.

Indicators of success:
BCCC could use our report as a reference to affect the current policy for the benefit of cyclists Our report could actually make a difference to the community.

For example: BCCC could use our report as a reference when lobbying or educating the general public.

Task, Completion, and Schedules
The research of the road conditions and rumble strips tasks are assigned this week and expected to be completed by March 12. We will begin writing Sections 2.0, 3.0 and variable 4.0  and complete it by March 19. We will complete the rest of the report and editing by March 26.

Section 2.0–Luke Jason

Section 3.0–Sunny,Tony

Section 4.0–Robin,Michael

Meanwhile, we will work on the poster starting March 13 and finish it by March 25.