PLANNING SERVICES FOR TRANSPORTATION-HANDICAPPED PEOPLE: DATA COLLECTION MANUAL (REVISED JANUARY 1985)

This report describes a data collection process for use by local transportation planning agencies and transit operators in designing and evaluating public transportation services for mobility-limited elderly, handicpped, or similar persons. The manual provides step-by-step procedures for each of the individual data collection techniques which comprise the process. The manual describes use of areawide phone surveys, census data factoring of the phone data, small subgroup survey techniques, and monitoring of on-going service. A variety of actual forms and survey instruments used in these processes are included as appendices.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • See also PB84-175702. Revision of report dated August 1983.
• Corporate Authors:

  Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Company

  1990 K Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20006
• Authors:
  • Dornan, D
  • Middendorf, D
• Publication Date: 1985-1

Media Info

• Features: Appendices;
• Pagination: p. 226

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aged; Census; Data collection; Manuals; Persons with disabilities; Surveys; Transit operating agencies; Transportation planning
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Economics; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00451201
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: DOT-I-83-40R Revision
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 30 1985 12:00AM