METHODS FOR COLLECTING INFORMATION ABOUT TRAVELER SUBGROUPS
A variety of research methods to learn about traveler subgroups can be used to differentiate among travelers and to explain travel patterns and problems. This paper evaluates indirect methods (such as literature reviews and expert interviews), unobtrusive methods (such as field observations and written record analysis), and direct methods (such as informal conversations, large sample surveys, and long-term personal interviews with subgroup members). The best features of these methods can be successfully incorporated into long-term meetings that involve small sets of homogeneous panels of travelers. Widespread use of the panel method, in combination with other resarch methods, is encouraged to explain subgroup travel behavior, identify travel problems, determine preferred solutions, and forecast and assess the impacts of policies and programs. Panel discussions seem particularly productive for helping transportation-disadvantaged subgroups such as the elderly, the handicapped, and the young. /Author/
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Authors:
- Gurin, Douglas Brian
- Publication Date: 1976
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- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: References;
- Pagination: pp 1-6
- Monograph Title: Social and economic factors in transportation planning
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Serial:
- Transportation Research Record
- Issue Number: 617
- Publisher: Transportation Research Board
- ISSN: 0361-1981
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Aged; Data collection; Forecasting; Impacts; Panels; Persons with disabilities; Reviews; Sampling; Surveys; Transportation disadvantaged persons; Travel patterns
- Uncontrolled Terms: Disadvantaged persons
- Old TRIS Terms: Field operations; Indirect method
- Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Public Transportation; Society;
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- Accession Number: 00163013
- Record Type: Publication
- ISBN: 0309025966
- Files: TRIS, TRB
- Created Date: Oct 13 1977 12:00AM