PLANNING SERVICES FOR TRANSPORTATION-HANDICAPPED PEOPLE: DATA COLLECTION MANUAL

This report describes a data collection process for use by local transportation planning agencies and transit operators in designing and evaluating public transportation services for mobility-limited elderly, handicapped, or similar persons. The manual provides step-by-step procedures for each of the individual data collection techniques which comprise the process. The manual describes use of areawide phone surveys, census data factoring of the phone data, small subgroup survey techniques, and monitoring of on-going service. A variety of actual forms and survey instruments used in these processes are included as appendices.

• Corporate Authors:

  Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Company

  1990 K Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20006

  Office of the Secretary of Transportation

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  Urban Mass Transportation Administration

  400 7th Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Dornan, D
  • Middendorf, D
• Publication Date: 1983-8

Media Info

• Features: Appendices;
• Pagination: 228 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aged; Census; Data collection; Manuals; Persons with disabilities; Quality of service; Sampling; Surveys; Travel patterns
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00389355
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: DOT-I-83-40 Final Rpt.
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Oct 30 1984 12:00AM