SELF-ADMINISTERED MAILBACK HOUSEHOLD TRAVEL SURVEY

The development, application, and results of a low-cost self-administered mailback household travel survey used by the Capital District Transportation Committee (the metropolitan planning organization in the Albany-Schenectady-Troy Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area) are described. The objective of the survey was to update 1965 home interview survey data. Criteria employed in selecting the survey technique were that the technique minimize both cost and staff effort and that the technique produce usable personal and household travel information across a broad range of socioeconomic groups and geographic areas. Key features of the survey included the survey instrument design, the use of bus tokens and maps as incentives to increase response rates among lower income households, and the use of an interactive computer program for data entry. The selection of the surrvey technique and design of the survey instrument are described. Two pretests were employed to verify the effectiveness of the survey instrument and of the use of incentives. After review of pretest results, a full-scale (approximately 5 percent) sample of 12,500 households in the metropolitan area was drawn and the survey was undertaken in March 1983. Results of the pretests and the full-scale survey are discussed, as well as the procedures used to verify

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• Authors:
  • Poorman, John P
  • Stacey, Deborah J
• Publication Date: 1984

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 10-17
• Monograph Title: ANALYTIC METHODS AND DECISION MAKING FOR TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 955
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accuracy; Data collection; Households; Incentives; Income; Measures of effectiveness; Metropolitan areas; Surveys; Travel behavior
• Uncontrolled Terms: Effectiveness
• Old TRIS Terms: Low costs; Response
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Society; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00391007
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Dec 30 1984 12:00AM