NTL Record

Title Introduction to Panel Surveys in Transportation Studies
Record ID 20867
Personal Name
Creator
Tourangeau, Roger; Zimowski, Michele; Ghadialy, Rashna; Pedlow, Steven
Corporate Creator National Opinion Research Center
Corporate
Contributor
Travel Model Improvement Program (U.S.); United States. Department of Transportation. Technology Sharing Division ; United States. Federal Highway Administration; United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Transit Administration
Publisher United States. Department of Transportation
Publication Date 19971000
Language English
Abstract Over the past few decades, several hundred travel surveys have been conducted within the United States, mostly by regional transit agencies and metropolitan planning organizations. The purpose of this report is to discuss a different kind of survey design that measure variation in travel behavior at the level of the individual household or person by taking repeated meaasurements on the same sample units at different points of time. The report begins by describing the differences between panel and cross-sectional approaches to the study of travel behavior. it then discusses the advantages and limitations of these approaches to data collections, identifies situations where panel data are desirable, and illustrates their benefits through examples drawn from transportation literature.
Rosap ID dot:15586
Rosap URL https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/15586
TRT Terms Travel behavior; Travel surveys; Panel studies; Data collection; Travel demand; Surveys; Transportation planning; Travel patterns; Statistical trends; Households; Guidelines; Forecasting; Benefits
General Subjects Longitudinal designs; Panel designs; Trip forecasting
Classification NTL - PLANNING AND POLICY - PLANNING AND POLICY;
NTL - PLANNING AND POLICY - Rail Planning and Policy;
NTL - PLANNING AND POLICY - Technology Transfer;
NTL - PLANNING AND POLICY - Travel Demand
Geographical
Coverage
United States
TRIS Online
Accession No
754405
Report Number DOT-T-98-3
Resource type Research Paper
URL https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/20000/20800/20867/PB98155633.pdf
Format PDF
Database NTL Digital Repository