New subject: Wiki-editable Travel Survey Manual (with example surveydocs) open for business!

26 Apr 2010

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(a)umd.edu) or* *Krishnan Viswanathan (
kviswanathan(a)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

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Wiki-editable Travel Survey Manual (with example survey docs) open for business!