The increasing development in technological capabilities and resources is pushing the transportation industry to implement new and better technologies to improve techniques for collecting travel behavior data for transportation planning applications. Travel surveys are the most common procedure used for this task and the development of more efficient ways to gather data is a major concern for transportation agencies. Improvement of data collection methods would product great benefits for policy makers and taxpayers because of potential savings in time, cost and resources. The ever-increasing availability of the Internet creates an opportunity for a potentially more efficient, less costly means of collecting travel behavior data. An efficient Internet-based travel survey has the potential of being a very effective means of collecting data for inclusion into transportation planning models (e.g., trip generation, distribution). This project examines the usefulness of an Internet survey through a pilot study in Huntsville, AL. The study specifically addresses the data (types, range, etc.) obtained from the Internet travel survey and efficacy of applying the collected data for transportation planning applications.In the transportation industry, forecasting and predicting are essential abilities directly affecting planning processes and projects. All transportation projects must be planned to satisfy both present needs and future demands. To accomplish this goal, current data related to the project's environment need to be collected and future data need to be forecasted. On the whole, the survey was moderately successful. Despite the low number of responses, the demographic analysis turned out to be promising and the Internet survey proved to be effective when collecting this type of data. The main reasons for limited travel data are the format of the web pages and the time required to complete the entire survey. Once these features are revised, an Internet travel survey could effectively collect both household and trip related data.


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    Title :

    Development and analysis of an internet-based travel survey


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2006


    Size :

    6 Seiten, 1 Bild, 2 Tabellen, 5 Quellen



    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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