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https://doi.org/10.3141/1625-09

http://scholar.google.com...kami&publication_year=1998

Travel surveys often serve as the primary sources of information on travel demand characteristics. They provide critical data for transportation planning and decision making. In recent times, several factors motivate a comparative examination of travel survey methods. First, new travel demand modeling tools, such as those based on activity-based methods, are placing greater demands on travel behavior data gathered from household travel surveys. Second, response rates from household travel surveys have been showing a steady decline, possibly because of an increasingly survey-fatigued population. Third, declining resource availability at metropolitan planning agencies places emphasis on the need to maximize response rates to lower data collection costs per completed respondent. Ideally, a comparative examination of travel survey methods is best done through a carefully constructed experimental design that permits the isolation of the impact of various survey design parameters on response rates. However, the conduct of such a controlled experiment virtually is impractical. A metaanalysis of a sample of travel surveys conducted in the past 10 years is presented. A predictive model of response rates is developed by using linear regression techniques and the practical application of the model is demonstrated through several numerical examples.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1625, Progress in Transportation Data 1998.

English

p. 72-78

1998

Transportation Research Record

0309064708

References (41) ; Tables (4)

Alternatives analysis; Linear regression analysis; Surveys; Travel surveys

Response rates; Survey methods

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Nov 5 1998 12:00AM

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• CHOOSING A HOUSEHOLD SURVEY METHOD: RESULTS OF DALLAS-FORT WORTH PRETEST
• CONSTRUCTION OF DAYTIME ACTIVITY PROFILES FROM HOUSEHOLD TRAVEL SURVEY DATA
• DATA RECONCILIATION-BASED TRAFFIC COUNT ANALYSIS SYSTEM
• DESIGN OF AUTOMATIC COMPREHENSIVE TRAFFIC DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR PENNSYLVANIA
• DEVELOPING DATABASE OF NATIONWIDE FREIGHT FLOWS FOR AUSTRALIA
• DEVELOPMENT OF INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM DATA MANAGEMENT
• DEVELOPMENT OF TRIP PRODUCTION RATES FOR SYNTHESIZED HOUSEHOLDS
• EXPERIMENTAL APPLICATION OF GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM TO LOCATE MOTOR VEHICLE CRASHES: IMPACT ON TIME AND ACCURACY
• GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM USE FOR HYDROLOGIC DATA DEVELOPMENT FOR DESIGN OF HIGHWAY DRAINAGE FACILITIES
• GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE COVERAGE FOR SURFACE APPLICATIONS OF DIFFERENTIAL GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM
• HIGHWAY FREIGHT FLOW ASSIGNMENT IN MASSACHUSETTS USING GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS
• OBTAINING TRAVEL INTENSITY PROFILES FROM HOUSEHOLD TRAVEL SURVEY DATA
• PRECISION AND BIAS OF DATA FROM FILM
• RELIABILITY OF TRAFFIC DATA
• RESEARCH NEEDS FOR DETERMINING SPATIALLY RESOLVED SUBFLEET CHARACTERISTICS
• SPATIAL AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF COMMERCIAL VEHICLE ACTIVITY IN METROPOLITAN ATLANTA
• SPECIFICATIONS FOR AUTOMATED LICENSE PLATE READING EQUIPMENT FOR TRANSPORTATION PLANNING
• STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF MEAN ROUTE TRAVEL TIMES ON SEVEN PRIMARY ARTERIALS IN CHICAGO METROPOLITAN REGION
• TRAFFIC COUNT ESTIMATES FOR SHORT-TERM TRAFFIC MONITORING SITES: SIMULATION STUDY
• TRUCK TRAFFIC PREDICTION USING QUICK RESPONSE FREIGHT MODEL UNDER DIFFERENT DEGREES OF GEOGRAPHIC RESOLUTION: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM APPLICATION IN PENNSYLVANIA