00820944

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https://doi.org/10.3141/1768-11

http://scholar.google.com...lmot&publication_year=2001

Over the last 10 years, household travel surveys have evolved from travel or trip diaries to activity diaries and then to time-use diaries. In all previous diaries, whether trip, activity, or time-use, successive trips or activities have been collected in sequence and were assigned a sequence number, beginning with 1. In current research, a time-use diary was developed that collects data on both in-home and out-of-home activities, treats travel as another activity, but gets away from sequential numbering of activities through the day. The new time-use diary is designed to have respondents record their activities by indicating start and end times in a 24-h diary format, similar to ones used in sociological time-use research. The development of the survey instrument through testing and a focus group is described, and a description of the final diary format is provided. Also described are the results of a pilot and main survey in which households were recruited by telephone and then sent diaries in the mail. Completed diaries were returned by mail, with a number of reminder telephone calls made to increase the response rate. The pilot and main survey data are analyzed to show the detail of the activities obtained and the completeness of information that this format of diary produces. The results of this small sample survey are compared with those of a conventional travel diary survey, carried out in Baton Rouge about 2 years earlier, by using telephone recruitment, diary mail out, and computer-aided telephone interview retrieval of diary data. Results, such as the number of trips and activities per household and per person, are compared, as are the sociodemographics of the two samples. It is concluded that the day planner diary format is a promising format that may provide better reporting of travel and activities than other diary formats.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1768, Transportation Data and Information Technology.

English

p. 89-98

2001

Transportation Research Record

0309072301

Figures (4) ; References (7) ; Tables (11)

Focus groups; Formatting; Households; Pilot studies; Prototypes; Testing; Travel diaries; Travel surveys

Baton Rouge (Louisiana)

Bridges and other structures; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 4 2001 12:00AM

• ANALYTIC MINIMUM IMPEDANCE SURFACE: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM-BASED CORRIDOR PLANNING METHODOLOGY
• APPLICATIONS OF STATE EMPLOYMENT DATA TO TRANSPORTATION PLANNING
• ARE HOUSEHOLDS WITH INTERRUPTED PHONE SERVICE LIKE THOSE WITH NO TELEPHONE SERVICE? COMPARISON USING PUBLIC-USE MICRODATA SET AND NATIONWIDE PERSONAL TRANSPORTATION SURVEY
• ASSESSMENT OF QUICK-REFUSAL AND NO-CONTACT NONRESPONSE IN HOUSEHOLD TRAVEL SURVEYS
• CLEARINGHOUSE APPROACH TO SHARING GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS-TRANSPORTATION DATA
• CONVERSION OF WEIGHT OF FREIGHT TO NUMBER OF RAIL CARS
• DATA-MINING TOOLS FOR THE SUPPORT OF SIGNAL-TIMING PLAN DEVELOPMENT
• DYNAMIC FREEWAY TRAVEL-TIME PREDICTION WITH PROBE VEHICLE DATA: LINK BASED VERSUS PATH BASED
• ELIMINATION OF THE TRAVEL DIARY: EXPERIMENT TO DERIVE TRIP PURPOSE FROM GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM TRAVEL DATA
• GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM-BASED INTEGRATED MODEL FOR ANALYSIS AND PREDICTION OF ROAD ACCIDENTS
• IN, OUT, WITHIN, AND THROUGH: GEOGRAPHY OF TRUCK FREIGHT IN THE LOWER 48
• INTEGRATED NETWORKING AND VISUALIZATION APPROACH TO CRASH DATA ANALYSIS
• INTEGRATED PLATFORM FOR MANAGING UTILITIES ALONG HIGHWAY CORRIDORS
• MULTICRITERIA DYNAMIC SEGMENTATION: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM APPLICATION FOR MANAGING RETROREFLECTIVITY OF PAVEMENT MARKING
• NEW ACTIVITY DIARY FORMAT: DESIGN AND LIMITED EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE
• OVERVIEW OF FREIGHT FLOW DATABASES IN SOUTH AFRICA
• PROMPTED RECALL IN GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM SURVEY: PROOF-OF-CONCEPT STUDY
• PROPOSED FRAMEWORK FOR STATE-BASED, DATA-DRIVEN MODELS FOR IMPROVED TRANSPORTATION OPERATIONS
• REDUCING RESPONDENT BURDEN, INFORMATION PROCESSING EFFORT, AND INCOMPREHENSIBILITY IN STATED-PREFERENCE SURVEYS: PRINCIPLES AND PROPERTIES OF THE PAIRWISE DESIGN STRATEGY
• TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIATIONS OF REAL-TIME TRAFFIC DATA IN URBAN AREAS
• TOLL ROAD ORIGIN-DESTINATION TRAVEL SURVEY: INTERNET AND MAIL-BACK RESPONSE ANALYSIS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURE SURVEYS
• TRAFFIC CHARACTERISTICS IN THE ARAB GULF REGION: CASE STUDY IN ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
• TRAFFIC DATA ACQUISITION AND DISTRIBUTION: ARCHIVED DATA USER SERVICES DATA MINE
• TRANSFERABILITY OF TRANSPORTATION PLANNING DATA
• USING A GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED DECISION MAKING IN HIGHWAY COST ANALYSIS
• USING A GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM TO TRACK CHANGES IN SPATIALLY SEGREGATED LOCATION PREMIUMS: ALTERNATIVE METHOD FOR ASSESSING RESIDENTIAL LAND USE IMPACT OF TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS
• USING GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM DATA FOR FIELD EVALUATION OF ENERGY AND EMISSION IMPACT OF TRAFFIC FLOW IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS: ISSUES AND PROPOSED SOLUTIONS
• USING GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM TO IMPROVE SCHOOL BUS ROUTING AND SCHEDULING
• USING INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS TRAVEL-TIME DATA FOR MULTIMODAL ANALYSES AND SYSTEM MONITORING