The Parish Council has published the data from the Speed Indicator Device (SID) deployment in Hayes Lane between the 10th and the 16th March.
| Site – Colehill, Hayes Lane (Southbound) | ||
| Analysis of SID Data collected – 10 March 2013 to 16 March 2013 | ||
| Total Number of movements | 7,965 | |
| Number of Days (or parts of) in Survey | 7 | |
| Average Number of Vehicle per day | 1,138 | |
| Maximum Speed | 51 | mph |
| Minimum Speed | 10 | mph |
| Average Speed | 24.88 | mph |
| Modal speed (highest frequency) | 17 | mph |
| 85th percentile | 34 | mph |
| Speeds up to 30mph | 5,404 | 67.85% |
| Speeds Between 31&35mph | 1,818 | 22.82% |
| Speeds Between 36&39mph | 561 | 7.04% |
| Speeds Between 40&50mph | 179 | 2.25% |
| Speeds Over 50mph | 3 | 0.04% |
| Total for check | 7,965 | 100.00% |
| Traffic Between Midnight and 6AM | 133 | 1.67% |
| Traffic Between 6AM and Midday | 2,920 | 36.66% |
| Traffic between Midday and 6PM | 3,368 | 42.28% |
| Traffic 6PM to Midnight | 1,544 | 19.38% |
| Total for check | 7,965 | 100.00% |
| Traffic movements on Sunday | 877 | 11.01% |
| Traffic movements on Monday | 1,176 | 14.76% |
| Traffic movements on Tuesday | 1,228 | 15.42% |
| Traffic movements on Wednesday | 1,240 | 15.57% |
| Traffic movements on Thursday | 1,246 | 15.64% |
| Traffic movements on Friday | 1,203 | 15.10% |
| Traffic movements on Saturday | 995 | 12.49% |
| Total for check | 7,965 | 100.00% |
Nothing very noteworthy here. There are a lot of vehicles slowing to turn into Jessop Road or Freemans Lane – hence the modal speed of 17mph and the correspondingly reduced averages. We have extracted this data, cleared the memory and then turned the device round to face towards the old railway bridge so that we can compare the statistics for the Northbound traffic.
The data set runs from midnight on Sunday 10th to midnight on Saturday 16th – an exact 7 day period.
Colehill Parish Council jointly own the Speed Indicator Device with Holt Parish Council. It is managed in conjunction with a team from Dorset County Council, however the deployment and data collection is by Parish Council volunteers. It can only be deployed on purpose-erected poles at several sites across the two parishes – as agreed with County Highways.