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Lessons from an Overview of National Transport Surveys, from Working Group 3 of COST 355: “Changing Behavior Toward a More Sustainable Transport System”

Transport Survey Methods

ISBN: 978-1-84-855844-1, eISBN: 978-1-84-855845-8

Publication date: 2 November 2009

Abstract

This chapter summarizes some of the results from the Working Group “National Travel Surveys” in COST Action 355. All 50 presentations could not be reviewed here; thus, we focus on three crucial topics:

  • the periodicity of data collection, but also its longitudinal aspects (advantages of continuous surveying, repeated cross-sections vs. panel surveys, etc.),

  • new technologies for improving the efficiency and accuracy of mobility surveys (computer-assisted telephone, Web-based, interviews, GPS, GSM, RDS, etc.),

  • innovative approaches, exemplified by qualitative surveys combined with conventional quantitative ones, and by biographical approaches.

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

This research was funded by Action 355, “Changing Behavior Toward a More Sustainable Transport System,” of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST). The authors also acknowledge the valuable comments of two anonymous reviewers.

Citation

Armoogum, J., Axhausen, K.W. and Madre, J.-L. (2009), "Lessons from an Overview of National Transport Surveys, from Working Group 3 of COST 355: “Changing Behavior Toward a More Sustainable Transport System”", Bonnel, P., Lee-Gosselin, M., Zmud, J. and Madre, J.-L. (Ed.) Transport Survey Methods, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 621-634. https://doi.org/10.1108/9781848558458-036

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