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Title:

Sample Size Implications of Multi-Day GPS-Enabled Household Travel Surveys

Accession Number:

01618804

Record Type:

Monograph

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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/9780309446006

Abstract:

This report presents a study (1) evaluating whether or not GPS-enabled multiday surveys overcome the survey fatigue challenges faced with multi-day diary surveys, (2) investigating the effects of using multi-day data for developing travel demand models, and (3) providing empirical evidence on the sample size implications of multi-day versus single-day surveys. These questions are explored using data from the 2012 Northeast Ohio Regional Travel Survey, a GPS-enabled household travel survey (HTS) in the Cleveland region. The survey featured a design in which (1) separate GPS-only versus GPS-with-prompted recall samples were collected (allowing for comparison of these approaches) and (2) travel data for the GPS-only sample was collected for 3 to 4 consecutive days (allowing for a multi-day analysis). The data was used to (1) estimate models of key travel choices (e.g., travel demand models) and (2) generate tabular data summaries of those same travel choices. The key travel choices were selected to illustrate the effect of sample size and number of days on different behavioral components and include models of automobile ownership, tour generation, destination choice, and mode choice. Separate estimations and tabulations were generated using separate 1-day, 2-day, and full-sample data files to demonstrate how the results varied among the three.

Report/Paper Numbers:

NCHRP Project 08-36/Task 123

Language:

English

Authors:

Rizzo, Louis
Erhardt, Gregory D

ORCID 0000-0001-8133-3381

Pagination:

34p

Publication Date:

2016-10

Serial:

NCHRP Research Results Digest

Issue Number: 400
Publisher: Transportation Research Board

ISBN:

9780309446006

Media Type:

Print

Features:

Appendices; References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Subject Areas:

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Nov 30 2016 3:22PM