H.—4o

Fig. 5.—Daily Variation of Traffic throughout a Week.

Figure 5 shows the daily variations of traffic throughout a week (a) in the winter and (h) in the summer, based upon a fairly large number of tallies recording a considerable volume of traffic. It will be seen that in the summer the greatest volume of traffic is on a Saturday, which is slightly in excess of Sunday, but considerably greater than any week-day. In the winter the week-end traffic is less than on any day during the working-week, and the weekday traffic increases gradually from Monday until Friday. The actual relationship between the volume of traffic in the summer and in the winter is given in Table F and further illustrated by Fig. 6. This figure is based upon an average highway — i.e., a length carrying the Dominion average volume of 145-5 motor-vehieles daily. It shows how the winter and the summer volumes of 127-6 and 163-4 vehicles respectively are distributed throughout an average twenty-four-hour period.

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