Survey of Surveys (SoS) - Mapping the Landscape of Travel-Related Surveys in COVID-19

“COVID-19” might be one of the top candidates for “Word of the Year 2020”.  The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has affected many aspects of life including the travel behaviors due to the travel bans or business restrictions. The transportation research community is taking the opportunity to investigate the unique travel dynamics during the unique period. Researchers from different organizations have developed a large number of surveys, aiming to uncover the impacts of COVID-19 on travel behaviors. The objective of this study is to show what questions are frequently asked in these surveys. This study collected survey questions from 23 travel-related COVID-19 surveys. Text mining was utilized for keyword identification and question classification. Further, some surveys may appear to be abundant, due to the same or similar topic (survey questions), the same survey time period (the COVID-19 pandemic), and even same or similar survey populations. This study developed two indicators (maximum similarity value and minimum similarity value) to examine the survey similarity. The results show that, although these surveys  different by researchers and some other aspects, they have great similarities. For example, almost all surveys ask questions about the frequency of travel-related activities. The findings suggest that perhaps a survey platform should be established to synthesize and standardize the survey questions that researchers would like to ask given the same research topic, so that researchers can work together using one standard survey and also survey participants do not need to answer the same/similar survey questions in different surveys.

• Record URL:
  https://annualmeeting.mytrb.org/OnlineProgram/Details/15843
• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AEP25 Standing Committee on Travel Survey Methods.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Lu, Weike
  • Li, Xiaobing
  • Liu, Jun
  • Jones, Steven
  • Parrish, Allen
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 100th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2021-1-5 to 2021-1-29
• Date: 2021

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 18p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: COVID-19; Data mining; Surveys; Travel behavior; Travelers; Trip purpose
• Subject Areas: Society; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01764253
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: TRBAM-21-03270
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 4 2021 11:00AM