[CTPP] Metropolitan Travel Survey Archive: Request for Surveys

Forwarded on behalf of Stephen Miller. Contact info below. From: 'Stephen Miller' <mill3315@umn.edu<mailto:mill3315@umn.edu>> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 8:49 AM Subject: Metropolitan Travel Survey Archive: Request for Surveys To Whom It May Concern, Since 2003, the Metropolitan Travel Survey Archive (MTSA) has been cataloging and preserving travel surveys conducted by metropolitan areas across the United States. To date, the MTSA has collected and processed 80 travel surveys, provided a space for users to download the raw data and to utilize tools that can analyze the data through our website < http://www.surveyarchive.org/ >. We continue to seek any travel surveys that we don't currently have. Since the advent of the MTSA's website, over 8,500 users from around the world have utilized the webpage. For students at the University of Minnesota, the MTSA has been used as a tool to teach them how to understand and read surveys, analyze a wide range of U.S. cities, and learn key concepts in transportation studies. Yet the greatest value derived from the MTSA is its ability to allow users, whether they are academics or transportation study professionals, to conduct online analyses or to save time in accessing data: users can instantly download each survey, in either a raw or processed format, without having to ask each transportation agency for their data sets. As a corollary, this saves transportation agencies from having to provide their data to every individual asking for one. If you are willing to provide any travel surveys we don't currently have, we would greatly appreciate it. Please contact the Primary Project Contact at mill3315@umn.edu<mailto:mill3315@umn.edu> or the Principal Investigator at dlevinson@umn.edu<mailto:dlevinson@umn.edu> . Sincerely, Stephen Miller, David Levinson, and Elaine Murakami ________________________________ This email is intended to be read only by the intended recipient. This email may be legally privileged or protected from disclosure by law. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination of this email or any attachments is strictly prohibited, and you should refrain from reading this email or examining any attachments. If you received this email in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this email and any attachments.