TRB Committee on Transportation Survey Methods (ABJ40)

REPORTS

Conference Proceedings:

• International Conference on Transport Survey Methods and Innovations, Kruger Park, South Africa, 2001
• Personal Travel: The Long and Short of It: (Reports from the NPTS/ATS Conference at the Watergate Hotel in Washington in June 1999.)
• Transport Surveys: Raising the Standard - 1997 E-C008
• International Conference on Survey Non-Response (Go to ICSN99 for report)
• MEST Conference Reports

Internet and Computer-based Surveys:

• Web-based Surveys by Holly Gunn, November 2002
• Classifying Response Behaviors in Web-based Surveys; M. Boznjak and T. Tuten, April 2001.
• Comparative Response to a Survey Executed by Post, E-mail, & Web Form, Gi Woong Yun and Craig W. Trumbo , September 2000.
• SBIR Phase II Final Report: Computer-Based Intelligent Travel Survey System
• Computer-Based Intelligent Travel Survey System: CASI/Internet Travel Diaries
• Use of Respondent Interactive Geocoding in Baltimore, MD Mode Choice Study in TRR 1719 (See TRB Bookstore for publication)
• Use of Internet-Based Household Travel Diary Survey Instrument in TRR 1804 (See TRB Bookstore for publication)

GPS Surveys:

• Exploring the potentials of automatically collected GPS data for Travel Behavior analysis - A Swedish data source: S. Schoenfelder, K.W. Axhausen, N. Anteille, and M. Bierlaire
• GPS, GIS and personal travel surveys: an excercise in Visualisation: P. Stoper, P. Bullock, and Q. Jiang. Australian Transport Research Forum. October 2002
• Personal Travel Unit (PTU) Development and Test
• GPS in Household Travel Surveys, from GIS-T 2002, Atlanta, GA. Jean Wolf, Miriam Thompson, William Bachman
• GPS as Data Collection Method for Travel Research (TRR 1719) TRB Bookstore
• Using GPS to Understand Variation in Path Choice (TRR 1725) TRB Bookstore
• Elimination of the Travel Diary: An experiment to Derive Trip Purpose from GPS Travel Data. (PDF or download Word.)
• Use of Electronic Travel Diaries and Vehicle Packages (PDF or download Word)
• Development of handheld electronic travel diary for monitoring individual tripmaking behavior (PDF or download Word.)
• Report on GPS for Personal Travel Surveys (Prepared by Battelle for FHWA, September, 1997.)
• Evaluating Gender Difference in Individual Accessibility
• Measuring Day-to-Day Variability in Travel Behavior Using GPS Data, Final Report
• Identifying the Correlates of Trip Misreporting- Results from the California Statewide Household Travel Survey GPS Study

Non-Response:

• The Vanishing Respondent in Telephone Surveys: by P. Tucket and H. O'Neill, AAPOR Conference - May 2001.
• Denver Travel Behavior Inventory - (Includes study on households without phones, partial completions, and non-response follow-up.)
• Non-response in Household Travel Surveys (FHWA-PL-98-029) - Prepared by National Opinion Research Center for FHWA, October, 1997.
• Weighting or Imputations? Example of Nonresponses for Daily Trips in the French NPTS (See No. 3, October 1998)
• Immobility: A microdata analysis: (Madre, J. - K.W. Axhausen, and M. -O. Gascon (2003); Paper presented at 10th International Conference on Travel Behavior Research, Verkerhrs-und Raumplanung, 166, Lucern, August 2003

Truck Surveys:

• Heavy Duty Truck Activity Data (Report prepared by Battelle for the Federal Highway Administration)
• Sources of Error in Estimating Truck Traffic from Automatic Vehicle Classification Data (Prepared by Satish Sharma, Guo Xin Liu, and Scott Thomas of the University of Regina.)

Diaries:

• Mobidrive: A Six Week Travel Diary (Addiitonal papers in English are available at: http://www.ivt.baug.ethz.ch/forschungsseite.html)
• Annotated Catologue of Travel Diaries (Prepared by Kay Axhausen; Centre for Transport Studies; Imperial College; London, England.)

Methods: (various)

• Results from the National Household Travel Survey Pre-Test (See "Pre-Test")
• An Introduction to Panel Surveys (FHWA-PL-98-028) - Prepard by National Opinion Resesarch Center for FHWA, October, 1997
• Effects of Data Collection Methods in Travel and Activity Research  (Prepared by D. Ettema, H. Timmermans, L. Van Veghel; For European Institute of Retailing and Services Studies, April, 1996.)
• Temporal Variability of Car Use as an Input to Design of Before and After Surveys in TRR 1855 (see TRB Bookstore for publication)
• Design Characteristics of National Travel Surveys in TRR 1804 (See TRB Bookstore for publication)
• Simulation Study of Estimation of Individual Specific Values of Time by Using Adaptive States-Preference Survey in TRR 1804 (See TRB Bookstore for publication)
• Have Telephone Surveys a Future in the 21st Century? Edith D. de Leeuw, Jim Lepkowski and Sun-Woong Kim, ICIS 2002, Copenhagen, Denmark.

TRB Bookstore: See particularly the following resources:

• Conference Proceedings 10: Household Travel Survey: New Concepts and Research Needs. March 12-15, 1995. ($34.00)
• NCHRP Synthesis of Highway Practice 236: Methods for Household Travel Surveys. 1996. ($15.00)

Activity Surveys:

• Spatial Behavioral Data: Collection and Use in Activity Scheduling Models in TRR 1804 (See TRB Bookstore for publication)
• Computer-based Activity Scheduling Diaries - (Papers by Sean Doherty, Wilfrid Laurier University)

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