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This paper discusses the latest microcensus on travel behavior in Switzerland, held in 1994. The growing variety of users interested in this piece of information, such as planning authorities, marketing departments of public transport companies, insurance companies and many others, requires a permanent growth of the surveys' topics. Compared with former surveys on travel behavior, the 1994 study design underwent a number of substantial innovations, thus better covering and informing on the daily travel patterns in Switzerland. The main changes consist of a switch from a written survey form to computer-assisted telephone interviewing. The careful and extensive procedures of contacting the persons selected for the interview, the numerous possibilities of on-line plausibility checks and the explanatory support in direct dialogue lead to a substantial decrease of overall and of item nonresponse. In addition, the computer-assisted telephone interview is able to cope with a degree of complexity, which is necessary for the recording of every single stage of all daily trips recorded for one day. Thus, it has been possible to record, for the first time on a national level, the manifold combinations of different public and private, motorized and non-motorized transport modes chosen for each single trip.

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E-C008,
Paper I-A
Paper I-B

English

15 p.

2000-8

Transportation Research Circular

Transport Surveys: Raising the Standard

Figures (2) ; References (19) ; Tables (3)

Case studies; Interviewing; Telephone; Travel behavior; Travel patterns; Travel surveys

Computer assisted telephone interviews; Microcensus

Switzerland

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

TRIS, TRB

Jun 4 2001 12:00AM

• CONDUCTING TELEPHONE ORIGIN-DESTINATION HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS WITH AN INTEGRATED INFORMATIONAL APPROACH
• DATA NEEDS, DATA COLLECTION, AND DATA QUALITY REQUIREMENTS OF ACTIVITY-BASED TRANSPORT DEMAND MODELS
• DATA QUALITY PROBLEMS IN TRAVEL SURVEYS: AN INTERNATIONAL OVERVIEW
• FUTURE TRANSPORT AND TRAVEL DATA NEEDS: A PRACTITIONER'S PERSPECTIVE
• HYPOTHETICAL SITUATIONS: THE ATTEMPT TO FIND NEW BEHAVIORAL HYPOTHESES
• ITEM NONRESPONSE IN TRAVEL SURVEYS: CAUSES AND SOLUTIONS
• ITEM NONRESPONSE, SAMPLING, AND WEIGHTING
• MULTI-DAY AND MULTI-PERIOD DATA FOR TRAVEL DEMAND ANALYSIS AND MODELING
• NPTS: THE U.S. NATIONAL HOUSEHOLD TRAVEL SURVEY
• PRESENTING AND PRESERVING TRAVEL DATA
• QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN THE TRANSPORT SECTOR
• QUALITY INDICATORS
• QUESTION FORMULATION AND INSTRUMENT DESIGN
• RAISING THE STANDARD! TRANSPORT SURVEY QUALITY AND INNOVATION
• RECOGNIZING, CREATING, AND MARKETING SURVEY QUALITY: GUIDELINES FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE IN TRAVEL AND ACTIVITY SURVEYS
• RESEARCHING THE WHOLE PICTURE: DEVELOPING APPROPRIATE SURVEY METHODS FOR TRANSPORT RESEARCH AMONG HIGH ILLITERACY, LOW-INCOME POPULATIONS IN ACCRA, GHANA
• SIMILAR, YET DIFFERENT: SOME EMERGING TRENDS IN TRAVEL SURVEYS IN AUSTRALIA
• SURVEYS USING MULTIPLE APPROACHES
• TRANSPORT SURVEYS: RAISING THE STANDARD. ORGANIZATION AND OVERALL RESULTS OF THE CONFERENCE
• TRANSPORTATION SURVEYS AMONG ILLITERATE AND SEMILITERATE HOUSEHOLDS IN SOUTH AFRICA
• UNDERSTANDING THE PEOPLE WE SURVEY
• USING A RANGE OF METHODS TO COLLECT TRAVEL DATA: THE EXPERIENCE OF THE BRITISH NATIONAL TRAVEL SURVEY
• USING GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEMS AND PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS FOR PERSONAL TRAVEL SURVEYS IN THE UNITED STATES