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The Abu Dhabi Department of Transport completed interview surveys of over 6,000 households across the emirate of Abu Dhabi between March and June 2015. The survey process was developed specifically to avoid many of the issues that were experienced in earlier surveys as well as seek to use new technology in order to increase the participation, accuracy, and reliability of the results. The HIS approach had four main themes: An extensive publicity campaign and agency support (Community Police) to minimize refusal rates; Interviewer training, monitoring, de-briefing, and re-training throughout the survey to ensure quality maintained; CAPI design to minimize respondent burden, limit data loss, maximize data integrity, directly capture geo-codes, and provide real-time quality control; and Semi-automated real-time data analysis to identify and improve interviewer performance (trip reporting), monitor sample against stratified target, control potential sample bias in relation to wider population. The aspects of the HIS design, organization, implementation, and quality control that contributed to the eventual success of the latest household interview survey, a 68% household response rate for fully completed HIS and less than 8% uncompleted surveys of the total interviews, which are considered State of the Art are described in the paper. The paper identifies the local and cultural issues that make the undertaking of HIS surveys in Abu Dhabi different from other countries and describes the processes that were used to overcome these issues. The paper summarizes the various challenges that were encountered and how these were successfully dealt with.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABJ40 Standing Committee on Travel Survey Methods. Alternate title: State-of-the-Art Household Interview Survey: Experience in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

01584066

16-2644

English

15p

2016

Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; References; Tables

Design; Households; Interviewing; State of the art; Travel surveys

Abu Zaby (United Arab Emirates)

Data and Information Technology; Highways; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2016 Paper #16-2644

PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 12 2016 5:09PM