Lessons from an Overview of National Transport Surveys, from Working Group 3 of COST 355: “Changing Behavior Toward a More Sustainable Transport System”

This chapter summarizes a few of the results from the Working Group “National Travel Surveys” in COST Action 355. It was not possible to review all 50 presentations, hence the authors chose to focus on these three crucial topics: (1) the periodicity of data collection, but also its longitudinal aspects (advantages of continuous surveying, repeated cross-sections vs. panel surveys, etc.); (2) new technologies for improving efficiency and accuracy of mobile surveys (computer-assisted telephone, web-based, interviews, GPS, GSM, RDS, etc.); and (3) innovative approaches, exemplified by qualitative surveys combined with conventional quantitative ones, and by biographical approaches.

• Corporate Authors:

  Emerald Group Publishing Limited

  Howard House, Wagon Lane
  Bingley,   United Kingdom  BD14 1WA
• Authors:
  • Armoogum, Jimmy
  • Axhausen, Kay W
  • Madre, Jean-Loup
• Publication Date: 2009

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Edition: First
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 621-634
• Monograph Title: Transport Survey Methods: Keeping Up with a Changing World

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Data collection; Global Positioning System; Interviewing; Lessons learned; Sustainable development; Technological innovations; Transportation planning; Travel behavior; Travel surveys
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01163896
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 23 2010 11:59AM