Dear Colleagues:
TRB’s Committee on Travel Survey Methods (ABJ40) has developed the
transportation community's first-ever
wiki-style
On-line Travel Survey Manual with details on virtually
everything transportation survey developers & survey managers need
to know.
Please visit http://www.travelsurveymanual.org
to get a sense of the 25 extensive chapters, covering all
types of
transportation surveys, including household, visitor, parking, freight
&
establishment surveys; stated preference and qualitative surveys;
GPS-based
designs and data expansion; survey costs and quality control. The
newly
developed Appendix provides high-quality samples of RFPs, diary
forms,
and other field materials.
This document represents an overhaul and update of the 1996 USDOT and
EPA
manual prepared by Cambridge Systematics (thank you to Kevin Tierney!),
with
major contributions from TRB’s recent NCHRP Report 571
“Standardized Procedures for Personal Travel Surveys” (thank you to
Peter Stopher & team!).
This document is the result of hard work and long hours by nearly 100
volunteers. Thank you to everyone who participated in
this effort.
Of course, a wiki-style project means that no one is “in charge” of
checking all contents (unlike a contract, where the PI is responsible).
There are many ways that this document can be improved, including
corrections and updates, and we would love your editing contributions!
We want to keep this document up to date, especially with field
materials, such
as samples of RFPs, respondent diaries, and CATI scripts. With the
advent
of so many computer-based surveys, we hope survey crews will capture
(via video
images) & upload computer screen survey interfaces.
We hope that you will find this document useful, and we look forward to
your
help improving and updating it. For permission to edit chapters,
please contact Lei Zhang (lei@umd.edu)
or Krishnan Viswanathan (kviswanathan@camsys.com),
so that they can provide you the appropriate login information.
Please pass the word along.
Thanks so much,
Kara Kockelman, Krishnan Viswanathan, Elaine Murakami, Lei Zhang, Kevin
Tierney
& the rest of the Travel Survey Manual Gang
-- Our apologies for cross-posting! --