Student Work
Research Issue: Public Transport
Aims and Project Plan
The aim of this project was to create and spread awareness about the utilization of public transport. We felt that public transport is being underutilized, and so thought about trying to promote its use.
The project plan is to research and know about public transport and its utilization around the world. Using public transport has many benefits we want to highlight such as – time saving, energy saving & reducing pollution. Other than the environmental effects, it is convenient to use too. We want to investigate how it affects people in different parts of the world. we plan to do this by talking to out friends and family who live in different countries and surveying people in our local community.
Rationale
Just by talking to our peers we discovered that none of them used public transport, not even once a year! We wanted to know that is it only our class or does the entire world think similarly. After talking to our classmates, we discovered that traffic is a major problem in Rajkot, and during festivals and celebrations, it becomes a headache to get out of the house in a car. Our parents say that parking space is not available in the busy places they normally visit.
Also lately, the BRTS bus service has been introduced in our city. The route it takes is right beside our school. We see it very often and could connect it to other public transport solutions we have come across, like the Mumbai local trains and the Delhi metro. Experiences of all these have been quite unique. That built up more curiosity for the topic.
Intended outcome
In the beginning of the project we were not really sure what to do. We made up our minds on making a presentation, either using PowerPoint or Prezi. After talking about it and seeing different examples we came to know that PowerPoint looked formal, therefore a better method of presentation. We got our survey done in a tabular format, which is easy to interpret and also include in our presentation. Till the very last day we had it in our minds that our final outcome was going to be a PowerPoint Presentation, but then we decided on making a document, which will not be a presentation of facts, instead, comparison of effects of usage of public transport on different countries.
Read the document below to know more about public transport in countries we researched.
Research Issue: Public Transport
Aims and Project Plan
The aim of this project was to create and spread awareness about the utilization of public transport. We felt that public transport is being underutilized, and so thought about trying to promote its use.
The project plan is to research and know about public transport and its utilization around the world. Using public transport has many benefits we want to highlight such as – time saving, energy saving & reducing pollution. Other than the environmental effects, it is convenient to use too. We want to investigate how it affects people in different parts of the world. we plan to do this by talking to out friends and family who live in different countries and surveying people in our local community.
Rationale
Just by talking to our peers we discovered that none of them used public transport, not even once a year! We wanted to know that is it only our class or does the entire world think similarly. After talking to our classmates, we discovered that traffic is a major problem in Rajkot, and during festivals and celebrations, it becomes a headache to get out of the house in a car. Our parents say that parking space is not available in the busy places they normally visit.
Also lately, the BRTS bus service has been introduced in our city. The route it takes is right beside our school. We see it very often and could connect it to other public transport solutions we have come across, like the Mumbai local trains and the Delhi metro. Experiences of all these have been quite unique. That built up more curiosity for the topic.
Intended outcome
In the beginning of the project we were not really sure what to do. We made up our minds on making a presentation, either using PowerPoint or Prezi. After talking about it and seeing different examples we came to know that PowerPoint looked formal, therefore a better method of presentation. We got our survey done in a tabular format, which is easy to interpret and also include in our presentation. Till the very last day we had it in our minds that our final outcome was going to be a PowerPoint Presentation, but then we decided on making a document, which will not be a presentation of facts, instead, comparison of effects of usage of public transport on different countries.
Read the document below to know more about public transport in countries we researched.