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Transport Survey Quality and Innovation

This overview of developments in transport survey methods from around the world emphasises survey quality and innovation. It contains selected papers from the International Conference on Transport Survey Quality and Innovation, held in the Kruger National Park, South Africa, during August 2001.

Publication Date:

2003-05-16

Editors:

P. Jones
Peter R. Stopher

Chapters:

Prelims
Chapter 1 Developing Standards of Transport Survey Quality
Chapter 2 Planning and Managing a Household Survey and a Population Census in a Multicultural and Multilingual Context
Chapter 3 The Joys and Tribulations of a Continuous Survey
Chapter 4 Measuring the Internal Quality of the Montreal CATI Household Travel Survey
Chapter 5 Designing Instruments to Improve Response
Chapter 6 Looking Beyond Commuter Travel in Cape Town: Methodological Lessons from the Application of an Activity-Based Travel Survey
Chapter 7 Survey Instrument Design
Chapter 8 Time-Space Diaries: Merging Traditions
Chapter 9 Quality and Innovation in Time Use and Activity Surveys
Chapter 10 Multi-Cultural and Multi-Lingual Transport Surveys, with Special Reference to the African Experience
Chapter 11 Multi-lingual and Multi-Cultural Conditions
Chapter 12 Postal, Telephone, and Face-to-Face Surveys: How Comparable are They?
Chapter 13 Mixed Mode Surveys
Chapter 14 Multi-Day and Multi-Period Data
Chapter 15 Standards and Practice for Multi-Day and Multi-Period Surveys
Chapter 16 Qualitative Methods in Travel Behaviour Research
Chapter 17 A Qualitative Survey Technique to Explore Decision Making Behaviour in New Contexts
Chapter 18 On the Role of Qualitative Methods in Travel Surveys
Chapter 19 Can You Get There From Here? A Viewpoint on Stated Response Survey Innovation and Quality
Chapter 20 Stated Preference Surveys: Do We Have Confidence Tests of the Results?
Chapter 21 Ensuring Quality in Stated Response Surveys
Chapter 22 Non-Household Surveys
Chapter 23 Non-Standard, Non-Household Surveys
Chapter 24 Insights on Freight and Commercial Vehicle Data Needs
Chapter 25 Tracking Along the Transport Chain via the Shipper Survey
Chapter 26 The Challenges of Freight and Commercial Transport Surveys
Chapter 27 Impact of New Technologies in Travel Surveys
Chapter 28 Trip Rate Analysis in GPS-Enhanced Personal Travel Surveys
Chapter 29 Using Technology to Improve Transport Survey Quality
Chapter 30 Respondent Burden
Chapter 31 From Respondent Burden to Respondent Delight
Chapter 32 Reducing the Effects of Item Nonresponse in Transport Surveys
Chapter 33 Comparison of Hot-Deck and Neural-Network Imputation
Chapter 34 Item Nonresponse
Chapter 35 Nonresponse and Travel Surveys
Chapter 36 Definitions of Unit Nonresponse in Travel Surveys
Chapter 37 Public Use of Travel Surveys: The Metadata Perspective
Chapter 38 Data Interrogation and Management
Chapter 39 Summary and Future Directions

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