Wildwood Forest Study

General Observations-Loading Process

 

• The children gathered and waited in the cafeteria.
• There was plenty of storage space for the queue.
• Tags hung on the rear view mirror to identify the children.
• Cars started arriving ½ hour early.
• Video camera began at 2:45.
• The children didn’t come out until 3:04.
• There was a teacher with a walkie-talkie calling out the numbers of the cars to the cafeteria.
• There were 5 bay areas although they were not clearly demarcated.
• No one escorted the children to their cars.
• There were two carpools that are interchanged for bus and car riders on mornings and afternoons.
• 4/5 cars loaded at a time.
• One person directing walkers at the intersection of Wildwood Forest Rd and Sand Bar Rd.

 

General Observations-Queuing Process

 

• Lot of storage space. In spite of this, the queue reached almost the end of storage i.e the intersection of Wildwood Forest Rd and Sand Bar Rd.

• Almost 3/4 cars waited for making a left-turn on Wildwood at peak.

 

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