Household Travel Surveys: Where Are We Going?

The authors review the recent history of household travel surveys and note some of the problems that contemporary surveys are encountering throughout the world. Data demands of current and emerging travel demand models are also reviewed, and it is concluded that there are many new demands being placed on data, both in terms of the extent of the data required and the accuracy and completeness of the data. Noting that the standard method for conducting most household travel surveys is, and has been for some years, a diary, the authors briefly explore the evolution of the diary survey from the late 1970s to the present. In the next section of the paper, the authors explore a number of facets of potential future data collection, and include in this the use of GPS devices to measure travel, the potential of panel designs and some of the alternatives within panel designs, the development of continuous household travel surveys, especially in Australia, and the emerging capabilities in data fusion. Using some of these emerging methods for data collection and data simulation, the authors then propose a new paradigm for data collection that places the emphasis on a paid, national panel that is designed as a rotating, split panel, with the cross-sectional component conducted as a continuing survey. The basis of the panel data collection is proposed as GPS with demographic data, and the continuing national sample would also use GPS at its core. The potential to add in such specialised surveys as stated choice and process surveys is also noted as an advantage of the panel approach. The authors also explore briefly the notion that a special access panel or panels could be included as part of the design.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Stopher, Peter R
  • Greaves, Stephen P
• Publication Date: 2007-6

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 367-381
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
  • Volume: 41
  • Issue Number: 5
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0965-8564
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09658564

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Data collection; Global Positioning System; Methodology; Simulation; Surveys; Travel demand; Travel surveys
• Uncontrolled Terms: Data; Data fusion model; Diary formats; Household surveys; Survey methods; Travel diary
• Geographic Terms: Australia
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01046937
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Apr 25 2007 1:48PM