Transport survey quality and innovation

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors Jones, P., active 2003 (Editor), Stopher, Peter R. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, United Kingdom : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2003.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781786359551
9781786359957
DOI10.1108/9781786359551
Physical Description1 online resource (646 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Prelims
  • Developing standards of transport survey quality
  • Planning and managing a household survey and a population census in a multicultural and multilingual context
  • The joys and tribulations of a continuous survey
  • Measuring the internal quality of the Montreal CATI household travel survey
  • Designing instruments to improve response
  • Looking beyond commuter travel in Cape Town: methodological lessons from the application of an activity-based travel survey
  • Survey instrument design
  • Time-space diaries: merging traditions
  • Quality and innovation in time use and activity surveys
  • Multi-cultural and multi-lingual transport surveys, with special reference to the african experience
  • Multi-lingual and multi-cultural conditions
  • Postal, telephone, and face-to-face surveys: how comparable are they?
  • Mixed mode surveys
  • Multi-day and multi-period data
  • Standards and practice for multi-day and multi-period surveys
  • Qualitative methods in travel behaviour research
  • A qualitative survey technique to explore decision making behaviour in new contexts
  • On the role of qualitative methods in travel surveys
  • Can you get there from here? a viewpoint on stated response survey innovation and quality
  • Stated preference surveys: do we have confidence tests of the results?
  • Ensuring quality in stated response surveys
  • Non-household surveys
  • Non-standard, non-household surveys
  • Insights on freight and commercial vehicle data needs
  • Tracking along the transport chain via the shipper survey
  • The challenges of freight and commercial transport surveys
  • Impact of new technologies in travel surveys
  • Trip rate analysis in gps-enhanced personal travel surveys
  • Using technology to improve transport survey quality
  • Respondent burden
  • From respondent burden to respondent delight
  • Reducing the effects of item nonresponse in transport surveys
  • Comparison of hot-deck and neural-network imputation
  • Item nonresponse
  • Nonresponse and travel surveys
  • Definitions of unit nonresponse in travel surveys
  • Public use of travel surveys: the metadata perspective
  • Data interrogation and management
  • Summary and future directions.