Week 3: January 27 – February 3
Feb 3rd, 2012 by Calvin
Due to a busy schedule for all of us, we decided to visit the Silver Harbour buses next week, on February 5 and 6. The dates were confirmed with Ms. Loverin, who informed us that we no longer needed to spend the entire day collecting data; this is great news, because there was a concern that some members of our team would be forced to miss an entire day of class for the bus rides.
On Tuesday, Ava and Linus visited the Capilano Community Services Society. The agency already has a large collection of data, including maps and ridership numbers, and their expectations are just for our group to organize this information into our final report. The main challenge with this portion of our project will be in the maps. Unlike a typical bus route, Capilano’s current system has a constantly varying route, due mainly to the fact that their target users are some of the older seniors; every week, they make phone calls to their list of riders, and alter the bus route to accommodate only the seniors in need of the transport service. For the report, we will need to analyze the data so that the map will be a good representation of the most commonly used routes for the bus.
In addition, we were finally able to arrange a meeting with West Vancouver’s Seniors’ Activity Centre. Andre and Lindsay visited the group on Thursday afternoon, and the group will discuss the needs and expectations of this agency in a meeting on Friday.
Three weeks into our project, and we remain on the tentative schedule set at the beginning of the term, which aims for a completion at the end of February. For this week, our main objectives will be:
- Ride the Silver Harbour Buses
- Look over the data given to us by Capilano
- Discuss and begin to address the needs of West Vancouver
Excellent progress! Interesting to hear that you are totally on-track re the timing.
Regards,
SN