Online Travel Survey Manual

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The Online Travel Survey Manual: A Dynamic Document for Transportation Professionals

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Members and Friends of the Transportation Research Board’s Travel Survey Methods Committee (ABJ40)

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http://travelsurveymanual.org (opens new window)

NCHRP Report 571 (opens new window) and the FHWA 1996 Travel Survey Manual (opens new window) are the basis for the majority of content contained here.

Table of Contents

This manual is divided into 25 sections or chapters, each relying on multiple editors to merge and extend existing content from Stopher et al.’s (2008) and Tierney et al.’s (1994) work, or to create wholly new content. The chapter titles and their contributors are as follows:

1. Introduction (opens new window), by Peter Endemann, Kara Kockelman and Charlene Wilder
2. The Generic Travel Survey Process (opens new window), by Lisa Aultmann-Hall and Peter Stopher
3. Options for Travel Surveys (opens new window), by Joanne Pratt, Martin Lee-Gosselin and Shaunna Burbridge
4. Management and Quality Control (opens new window), by Laurie Wargelin and Sudeshna Sen
5. Precision and Accuracy in Travel Surveys (opens new window), by Ho-Ling Hwang, Peter Stopher and Clara Reschovsky
6. Household Survey Methods Design and Sampling Decisions (opens new window), by Kouros Mohammadian and Harry Timmermans
7. Household Survey Organization and Contracting (opens new window), by Guy Rousseau and Jimmy Armoogum
8. Household Survey Instrument Design (opens new window), by Peter Stopher, Kay Axhausen, Stacey Bricka and Eric Molin
9. Household Survey Pretests (opens new window), by Nancy McGuckin and Rob Sheldon
10. Household Survey Implementation (opens new window), by Stacey Bricka and Joanne Pratt
11. Household Survey Coding and Geocoding (opens new window), by Martin Trepanier, Elaine Murakami, Celia Boertlein and Michael Greenwald
12. Household Survey Data Expansion and Analysis (opens new window), by Steve Ruegg
13. Household Survey Training Approaches and Priorities (opens new window), by Mark Freedman, Heather Contrino and Bhuvan Eshwar
14. Household Survey Procedures and Measures for Further Research (opens new window), by Matthew Roorda, Cristina Pronello and Casper Chorus
15. Vehicle Intercept and External Station Surveys (opens new window), by Jerry Everett, Steve Ruegg and Rob Tardiff
16. Transit Onboard Surveys (opens new window), by Guy Rousseau, Arash Mirzai, Patrick Bonnel and Ken Cervenka
17. Commercial Vehicle Surveys (opens new window), by Frank Southworth, Rob Tardif, Zachary Patterson, Chris Simek, Stephanie McVey and Matthew Roorda
18. Workplace and Establishment Surveys (opens new window), by Frank Southworth, Yongping Zhang and Joy Sharp
19. Visitor Surveys (opens new window), by Mark McCourt, Brenda Zhou and Rob Sheldon
20. Parking Surveys (opens new window), by Jesse Simon and Chris Simek
21. Stated-Response Surveys (opens new window), by Gonçalo Correia and Mark Bradleya
22. Longitudinal Surveys (opens new window), by Tomas Ruiz-Sanchez, Elaine Murakami, Guang-Xiang Chen and Niel Kilgren
23. GPS Surveys (opens new window), by Jean Wolf, Michel Bleimer, Mark Bradley and other GeoStats managers
24. Qualitative Methods (opens new window), by Els Hannes, Davy Janssens and Geert Wets
25. Costs and Trip Rates of Recent Household Travel Surveys (opens new window), by David Hartgen and Elizabeth San Jose
26. Using Smartphones for Travel Behavior Studies (opens new window), by Elaine Murakami, Stacey Bricka, Sandra Rodriguez, Kevin Hathaway, Chris Hoffman, Stephen Lawe, Caitlin Cottrill, Roy Whitmore and Paul Kizakevich
27. Appendix A - Additional Resources: Example Surveys, Field Materials & RFPs (opens new window)

Copyright & Usage Permissions

Some material contained here may be copyrighted, and this website does not modify any underlying copyright status. Permission is granted to copy, distribute, display and/or modify the material included here, but only for classroom and non-commercial purposes. Permission is given with the understanding that none of the material will be used to imply TRB or FHWA endorsement of a particular product, method, or practice. Those copying, distributing, displaying or modifying the material in this document for classroom or non-commercial uses will give appropriate acknowledgment of the source of any material. For other uses of the material, individuals must request permission from the Committee.

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