GUIDELINES FOR CONDUCTING SURVEYS CONCERNING TRANSPORTATION

The purpose of the study is to produce guidelines that provide specific, operational and action oriented assistance to those responsible for planning and implementing transportation surveys as a community involvement tool. A considerable amount of recent transportation survey experience along with the provision of technical information from private urban opinion survey organizations was researched and analyzed for inclusion in these guidelines. By discussing and comparing the relative merits of different survey techniques, the sampling process, questionnaire design, and examples of past surveys, these guidelines cover the theoretical as well as the practical side of the surveying process. The presentation of this information is in such a form that it can be used by field staff to insure that this vital element of a community involvement program can be performed in an efficient and effective manner.

• Record URL:
  • http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/research/reports/fullreports/025.3.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  Washington State Department of Highways

  Social and Economic Planning Section
  Olympia, WA  United States  98504

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Publication Date: 1975-9

Media Info

• Pagination: 70 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: City planning; Communities; Data collection; Guidelines; Information processing; Public opinion; Public relations; Questionnaires; Sampling; Surveys; Transportation; Transportation planning; Urban areas; Urban transportation
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00133223
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: RPR-253 Final Rpt.
• Files: TRIS, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jun 23 1976 12:00AM