3. BLUE-WATER BRIDGE FORECSTING A Case Study of the Blue Water Bridge-Forecasting The Blue Water Bridge spans the Saint Clair River, and carries international traffic between Port Huron, Michigan and Point Edward and Samia, Ontario. Located near interchange of 1-94 and 1-69, the bridge forms a critical gateway linking Canada and the United States. To forecast eastbound and westbound monthly truck volume of blue water bridge from 1985 march to 1986 march they applied simple exponential smoothing and linear trend. Fort Gratie Charter Township (A) Port Huron Charter Townsh B Stware Port Huron Marysville Samia 102 Fours Line Colquile Westbound and eastbound truck volume data from Jan 1984 to Feb 1985 by each month. Eson Court Mancauman Marthe Westbound and eastbound truck volume data from Jan 1984 to Feb 1985 by each month. January 84 February' 84 March' 84 April 84 May' 84 June 84 July' 84 August 84 Month September 84 October 84 November 84 December 84 January 85 February 85 Questions: Westbound 13253 12878 14716 14186 15699 15619 13799 14612 14411 16232 15603 13525 15706 14125 Eastbound 12968 12689 14444 13820 15596 15323 13448 14539 14165 15964 15308 13177 15513 14250 1. Forecast using linear trend. 3. (A) Find forecast for January 84 to march 85 for Westbound using Three period moving average. (B) Find forecast forJanuary 84 to march 85 for Eastbound using EST with a = 0.7