Year 10 Geography students embarked on their Human fieldwork to St Ives; aiming to investigate how effective the ‘Low Carbon Transport Strategy’ is. 

Students completed a car park survey in four car parks close to Wharf Road and Fore Street; allowing them to evaluate how busy they 
were. They also completed a land use survey to understand which buildings in the town centre needed vehicle access and, therefore, how proposed traffic restrictions would affect them. 

The use of pedestrian counts allowed students to see how busy the local area was and how these people would be impacted by traffic. 
This years’ vehicle counts got students to distinguish between high and low carbon vehicles, to help them better understand the impacts of carbon on the environment. Finally, students interviewed locals, tourists and workers to determine whether people felt the changes to transport in St Ives were effective or not.

In school students are beginning to analyse and present their findings, before writing conclusions and evaluations to answer their initial hypothesis. Students were impeccably behaved - well done!