Sensing the Baby Boomers: Tracking Older Adults’ Travel Behavior Using Android-Based Smartphones

This project intends to demonstrate the possibilities for using smartphones to obtain highly resolved behavioral information for older adults, especially leading edge baby boomers. Towards this end, the authors are implementing a pilot study which will help to establish the foundation for larger-scale, widely-applicable, and more-reliable smartphone-based travel and activity data collection efforts for the baby boomer cohort, and beyond. The ultimate objectives are to: 1. draw upon innovations in communications technologies to enhance travel data collection; 2. develop a non-intrusive tool that may be widely used for travel survey purposes; and 3. demonstrate the usefulness of the technology in gathering data that can be especially helpful to understanding particular behavioral- and built environment-related characteristics that might influence older adult travel behavior (e.g., safety risks).

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• Record URL:
  • https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/26606
• Supplemental Notes:
  • This document is disseminated under the sponsorship of the Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program.
• Corporate Authors:

  New England University Transportation Center

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 40-279
  Cambridge, MA  United States  01239

  Research and Innovative Technology Administration

  University Transportation Centers Program
  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Zegras, Christopher
  • Ben-Joseph, Eran
• Publication Date: 2013

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Final Report
• Pagination: 3p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Activity choices; Aged; Data collection; Smartphones; Travel behavior; Travel surveys
• Uncontrolled Terms: Baby boomer generation
• Subject Areas: Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01501347
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: MITR23-9
• Files: UTC, NTL, TRIS, RITA, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Dec 16 2013 2:07PM