Revised Proposal

Tyler Clausen
Siena College
Loudonville, NY 12211
October 13, 2014


Introduction:
The Gumball 3000 is an annual British 3,000 mile motor rally which occurs internationally on open public roads.  In the 2014 rally, 110 official "entered" cars registered and countless thousands of other "non-entered" racers drove along the route as well.  The starting line began in the Miami, FL, USA, passed through Atlanta, and ended in New York City.  Then the cars were loaded into planes and flown over to Edinburgh, UK, continuing through London, Paris, and Barcelona, before making to the finish on the island of Ibiza.  This took a total of 8 days to complete.
Cars are well known to cause negative impacts to the environment.  All of these cars traveling across the country would have been emitting carbon dioxide gases. In today's society, carbon emissions are heavily recorded and researched due to "global warming" and environmental impacts.  

Objectives:
This project will make use of carbon emission data collected from outside databases and studies as well as the route of the 2014 Gumball 300 to create a map using ESRI ArcMap.  These data points will be mapped according to how severe carbon emissions are on the route and the impacts they may have.


Data Sources:

• Areal photography
• Satellite imagery
• GPS point data
• Existing maps of the Gumball route
• Carbon emission databases

Schedule (Tentative):
10/9- Work on Project Proposal
Week of 10/13- Meet with Dr. M about pre existing CO2 data, do research
10/14- Revised project proposal due
Week of 10/20- Start creating map
10/21- Blog 2 due
10/28- Blog 3 due
11/4- Blog 4 due
11/13- Blog 5 due
11/18- Blog 6 due
11/25- Blog 7 due
12/2- Work on Project
12/4- Poster Presentations

Deliverables:
-Project Proposal
-Project blog with weekly blog postings and updates
-Comments on classmates' blog
-A final poster presentation