Development of Person Trip Recording System for Travel Survey/Self-diagnosis

• Published in: INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING REVIEW Vol. 24; pp. 437 - 445
• Main Authors: UCHIDA, Takashi, KURIYAMA, Hisaka
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Japan Society of Civil Engineers 2007
• ISSN: 0913-4034; 1884-8303; 1884-8303
• DOI: 10.2208/journalip.24.437

It is important to understand the movement of “Person” that is a traffic subject in planning urban traffic, and person trip (hereafter, it is assumed the PT investigation) that understands an individual traffic situation during a day plays an important role. However, the content of an actual activity is not accurately recorded because filling in tothe investigation table is done after all the activities during a day in the conventional PT survey methodology. Then, in this research, we propose a PT investigative tool, named “e-Trip System” that uses the GPS cellular phone and the personal computer to resolve these problems. The process makes the content of the activity recalled by acquiring the movement tracks by using a positionspecifying function of the GPS cellular phone when actually acting, and showing the movement tracks obtained in the sight on the personal computer, and operates by those who answer oneself and completes the trip data. In this research, some dozens of persons used this tool after the prototype is designed, and the perfection of the tool was improved by feeding back the obtained opinion. And, to prevent the lack of record and improve accuracy, we conducted small PT survey experiment by e-Trip System, and the effect was verified by the comparison with a conventional investigation form.