MAIL-OUT/MAIL-BACK TRAVEL SURVEY IN HOUSTON, TEXAS

During the fall of 1984, a mail-out/mail-back travel survey was conducted on Houston area households. Designed to obtain household, tripmaker, and detailed trip characteristics, the survey was completed by 1,596 of 6,941 households contacted by telephone. The procedure used was to telephone selected households and request their participation. A survey form was mailed to each participating household on which each trip made by members of the household for a given day was recorded. The forms were then returned by mail and analyzed. The mail-out/mail-back survey procedure was chosen because it best met the constraints of project funding, time available for data collection, data needs, and staff availability and training. Based on statistical evaluation of the quantity and variability of travel by household type, it was determined that reliable estimates of tripmaking characteristics could be obtained with a stratified sample of 1,200 households. Although tending to under-represent household categories with small percentages of the total population, the sample was representative of the population in those household categories with the greatest proportions of Houston area travel.

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• Authors:
  • Clark, Allan C
  • Goldstucker, Celia
• Conference:
  • 65th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
  • Location: Washington District of Columbia, United States
  • Date: 1986-1-13 to 1986-1-16
• Publication Date: 1986

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 13-19
• Monograph Title: Innovations in travel survey methods
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 1097
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accuracy; Data collection; Statistical analysis; Surveys; Telephone; Travel
• Geographic Terms: Houston (Texas)
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Data and Information Technology; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00472257
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309041171
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Aug 31 1987 12:00AM