Transport Survey Methods: Best Practice for Decision Making

by Johanna Zmud (Editor), Martin Lee-Gosselin (Editor), Juan Antonio Carrasco (Editor), Marcela A. Munizaga (Editor)

Overview

Every three years, researchers with interest and expertise in transport survey methods meet to improve and influence the conduct of surveys that support transportation planning, policy making, modelling, and monitoring related issues for urban, regional, intercity, and international person, vehicle, and commodity movements. This book compiles the critical thinking on priority topics in contemporary transport policy and planning contexts. The contributed papers cover two key themes related to types of decision-making of importance to the development of data collection on both passenger travel and freight movements: the first theme, Selecting the Right Survey Method, acknowledges the fact that transport survey methods are evolving to meet both changing uses of transport survey data and the challenges of conducting surveys within contemporary society. The second theme, Supporting Transport Planning and Policy, recognizes that the demands on transportation data programs to support decision-making for transport planning and policy making clearly have evolved.The chapters have been selected with particular emphasis on the challenges of the near and medium term future to the design of transport surveys. Rapidly evolving problems and policy contexts are compelling transport researchers to advance the state-of-the-art of methods, tools, strategies and protocols, while assuring the stability and coherence of the very data from which trends can be tracked and understood and on which important decisions can be made.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781781902875
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Publication date:	01/29/2013
Pages:	798
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 9.60(h) x 2.00(d)

Table of Contents

List of Contributors xi

Preface xvii

Acknowledgements xxi

Part I Setting the Context

1 Transport Surveys; Considerations for Decision Makers and Decision Making Johanna Zmud Martin Lee-Gosselin Marcela Munizaga Juan Antonio Carrasco 3

2 Keynote - Total Design Data Needs for the New Generation Large-Scale Activity Micro simulation Models Konstadinos G. Goulias Ram M. Pendvala Chandra Bhat 21

Part II Focus on Improved Methods: Themes 1 To 5

Theme I Mainstreaming Mobility-Aware and On-Line Technologies

3 Cell Phone Enabled Travel Surveys: The Medium Moves the Message Jane Gould 51

4 A Case Study; Multiple Data Collection Methods and the NY/'NJ/CT Regional Travel Survey Jean Wolf Jeremy Wilhelm Jesse Casas Sudeshna Sen 71

5 Conducting a GPS-only household travel survey Peter R. Stopher Christine Prasad Laurie Wargelin Jason Minser 91

6 The Role of Web Interviews as Part of a National Travel Survey Linda Christensen 115

7 Using Accelerometer Equipped GPS Devices in Place of Paper Travel Diaries to Reduce Respondent Burden in a National Travel Survey Abhy Sneade 155

8 Workshop Synthesis: Validating Shifts in the Total Design of Travel Surveys Anthony J. Richardson T. Keith Law Ton 181

9 Workshop Synthesis: Multi-Method Data Collection To Support Integrated Regional Models Eric J. Miller Caillin Cottrill 195

Theme 2 Improving Respondent Interfaces

10 Web-Based Travel Survey: A Demo Pierre-Léo Bourbonnais Catherine Morency 207

11 Web versus Pencil-and-Paper Surveys of Weekly Mobility: Conviviality, Technical and Privacy issues Marias Thériault Martin Lee-Gosselin Louis Alexandre François Théberge Louis Dieumegarde 225

12 Workshop Synthesis: Designing New Survey Interfaces Marcelo G. Simas Oliveira Mark Freedman 247

13 Shipper/Carrier Interactions Data Collection: Web-Based Respondent Customized Stated Preference (WRCSP) Survey Rinaldo A. Cavalcante Matthew J. Roorda 257

14 Workshop Synthesis: Alternative Approaches to Freight Surveys Jesse Casas Matthew J. Roorda 279

Theme 3 Comparing Survey Modes and Methods

15 Analysis of PAPI, CATT, and CAWI Methods for a Multiday Household Travel Survey Martin Kagerbauer Wilko Manz Dirk Zumkeller 289

16 Comparing Trip Diaries with GPS Tracking: Results of a Comprehensive Austrian Study Birgit Kohla Michael Meschik 305

17 Correcting Biographic Survey Data Biases to Compare with Cross-Section Travel Surveys Francis Papon 321

18 Workshop Synthesis: Comparative Research into Travel Survey Methods Jimmy Armoogum Marco Diana 337

Theme 4 Facing Up to Sample Attrition in Longitudinal Surveys

19 Optimal Sampling Designs for Multi-Day and Multi-Period Panel Surveys Makoto Chikaraishi Akimasa Fujiwara Junyi Zhang Dirk Zumkeller 349

20 Data Quality and Completeness Issues in Multiday or Panel Surveys Bastion Chlond Matthias Wirtz Dirk Zumkeller 373

21 Workshop Synthesis: Longitudinal Methods: Overcoming Challenges and Exploiting Benefits Elizabeth Ampt 393

Theme 5 Understanding the Social Context of Data Collection

22 Affective Personal Networks versus Daily Contacts: Analyzing Different Name Generators in a Social Activity-Travel Behavior Contex Juan Antonio Carrasco Cristián Bustos Beatriz Cid-Aguayo 409

23 Qualitative Methods in Transport Research: The 'Action Research' Approach Karen Lucas 427

24 Workshop Synthesis: Collecting Qualitative and Quantitative Data on the Social Context of Travel Behaviour Kelly J. Clifton 441

Part III Focus On New Methods and Data Sources: Themes 6 To 8

Theme 6 New Challenges in Dealing with Time: Environmental Peaks and Planning Horizons

25 Empirically Constrained Efficiency in a Strategic-Tactical Stated Choice Survey of the Usage Patterns of Emerging Carsharing Services Scott Le Vine Arimu Sivakumar Martin Lee-Gosselin John Polak 453

26 Workshop Synthesis: Methods for Capturing Multi-Horizon Choices Chandra Bhat Matthew Roorda 471

27 Survey Data to Model Time-of-Day Choice: Methodology and Findings Julián Arellano Juan de Dios Ortúzav Luis Ignacio Rizzi 479

28 Collection of Time-Dependent Data Using Audio-Visual Stated Choice Chester Wilmot Ravindra Gudishala 507

29 Workshop Synthesis: Survey Methods to Inform Policy Makers on Energy, Environment, Climate and Natural Disasters Gerd Sammer Juan de Dios Ortúzar 523

Theme 7 New Perspectives on Observing Choice Processes: Psychological Factors

30 Factors Affecting Respondents' Engagement with Survey Tasks Peter Bonsall Jens Schade Lars Roessger Bill Lythgoe 539

31 A Stated Adaptation Approach to Surveying Activity Scheduling Decisions Claude Weis Christoph Dobler Kay W. Axhausen 569

32 Workshop Synthesis: Cognitive and Decision Processes Underlying Engagement in Stated Response Surveys Peter Bonsall 591

33 Measuring User Satisfaction in Transport Services: Methodology and Application Pedro Donoso Marcela Munizaga Jorge Rivera 603

34 Semantic Approach to Capture Psychological Factors Affecting Mode Choice: Comparative Results from Canada and Chile Alejandro Tudela Khandker M. Nurul Habih Ahmed Osman Idris 625

35 Workshop Synthesis: Measuring the Influence of Attitudes and Perceptions Mark Bradley 643

Theme 8 New Types of Data Streams: Opportunities and Challenges

36 Smart Card Validation Data as a Multi-Day Transit Panel Survey to Investigate Individual and Aggregate Variation in Travel Behaviour Ka Kee Alfred Chu Robert Chapleau 649

37 Indirect Measurement of Level of Service Variables for the Public Transport System of Santiago Using Passive Data Pablo Beltran Antonio Gschwender Marcela Munizaga Meisy Ortega Carolina Palma 673

38 Towards a Reliable Origin-Destination Matrix from Massive Amounts of Smart Card and GPS Data: Application to Santiago Flavio Devillaine Marcela Munizaga Carolina Palma Mauricio Zúñiga 695

39 Workshop Synthesis: Exploiting and Merging Passive Public Transportation Data Streams Catherine Morency 711

40 A GPS/Web-Based Solution for Multi-Day Travel Surveys: Processing Requirements and Participant Reaction Stephen Greaves Richard Ellison 721

41 Spatiotemporal Data from Mobile Phones for Personal Mobility Assessment Zbigniew Smoreda Ana-Maria Olteanu-Raimond Thomas Couronné 745

42 Workshop Synthesis: Post-Processing of Spatio-Temporal Data Peter Stopher Abby Sneade 769

Index 781