Americans have begun to accept the stigma from the rest of the world that we are very needy people and need to be the most efficient as possible. A study conducted by GMI Research shows that 80% of Americans want to be efficient (New Study Reveals, 2016). We must always ensure our shipment of goods arrives at its destination on time and quickly. “With the development of Advanced Travelers Information Systems (ATIS), short term travel time predictions is becoming increasingly important” (Chien and Chen 2001a,b). The study done by Chien and Kuchipudi, 2003 shows that in order to become efficient in areas such as travel time, shipment of goods and location tracking, it is imperative that a base line of data is gathered to see how exactly a business can expedite the process. Due to the fluctuations in traffic at various times of the day due to weather, road construction or lots of motorist, businesses have …show more content…
Research is a very time consuming ordeal that takes a lot of preparation time. It becomes occasionally becomes an ‘art form’ because of why we have to do things in a particular order. In order to have a good grasp on the solution one is finding, we must read and comprehend multiple literature reviews in order to have good and sufficient data that backs up our reason to conduct a study. We must analyze data and make unbiased predictions and conclusions. We have to make sure every problem that is intended for research has a solution and an explanation of it. When looking at research methods, there are multiple ways to tackle a problem within the qualitative and quantitative categories. There may not be a wrong way, but there is a more efficient or better way to conduct a research. Depending on what kind of research is being done, it may require the researcher to do more than one type of research