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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
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