Transport Survey Data: What in the World Is Happening?

This paper provides a synopsis, from a Canadian perspective, of priorities, issues and trends from around the world that were discussed at the 9th International Conference on Transport Survey Methods in Chile in November 2011. The dominant contemporary issues that cut across 14 thematic workshops included: the maturing of new technological supports to transport surveys; the alignment of surveys with administrative data; cognitive and social processes affecting survey response, especially in surveys about potential behaviour; shifts in the total design of surveys; the data needs of integrated regional models; and survey designs addressing specific policy questions in passenger and freight transport. These issues were discussed in the context of data collection's being an easy target for budget cuts, while public and private agencies are more and more dependent on decision support systems using analysis tools and models that are relatively "data hungry". This last is not just a question of the quantity of data, but also of its quality and comprehensiveness, and of the inclusiveness of user groups that are reached by survey samples. Moreover, while metropolitan household travel surveys remain the "bread and butter" of urban transportation planning, a number of other types of survey on the past, current and anticipated behaviour of passenger and freight transport users have become increasingly valuable to decision makers around the world. This trend was seen as particularly important to scoping shifts in the transport system, while maintaining comparable indicators of transport demand over long periods. (A) For the covering abstract of this conference see ITRD record number 201211RT334E.

• Record URL:
  http://www.tac-atc.ca/english/annualconference/tac2012/docs/session18/gosselin.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)

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• Authors:
  • LEE-GOSSELIN, MEH
  • MILLER, EJ
  • Morency, C
  • ROORDA, MJ
• Conference:
  • 2012 CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION OF THE TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION OF CANADA - TRANSPORTATION: INNOVATIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES
  • Location: Fredericton New Brunswick, Canada
  • Date: 2012-10-14 to 2012-10-17
• Publication Date: 2012

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 11 p.
• Monograph Title: 2012 Conference and Exhibition of the Transportation Association of Canada - Transportation: Innovations and Opportunities

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Data collection; Design; Field tests; Interviewing; Methodology; Travel surveys
• Geographic Terms: Canada
• ITRD Terms: 8018: Canada; 8525: Conference; 8623: Data acquisition; 9011: Design (overall design); 6226: In situ; 9147: Interview; 9102: Method; 1729: Travel survey
• Subject Areas: Design; Planning and Forecasting; I71: Traffic Theory; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01480630
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)
• Files: ITRD, TAC
• Created Date: May 1 2013 1:21PM