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Abstract #304338

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Activity Number:	224
Type:	Topic Contributed
Date/Time:	Tuesday, August 9, 2005 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor:	Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #304338
Title:	Developing a Sustainable and Flexible Long-distance Travel Survey
Author(s):	Lee Giesbrecht*+ and Jonaki Bose
Companies:	Bureau of Transportation Statistics and Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Address:	400 Seventh Street SW, Washington, DC, 20590, United States
Keywords:	long-distance ; travel ; sustainable ; non-response ; coverage
Abstract:	The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) is responsible for designing the next national survey on long-distance travel. Past surveys were conducted in 1977, 1995, and 2001. These surveys were vastly different from each other in scope and methodology. BTS now faces the challenge of designing a long-distance travel survey program that will meet the needs of its varied data users, improve on the various shortcomings of previous surveys, be sustainable over time, and maintain at least some comparability with the previous surveys. BTS identified the five biggest challenges facing this program as adequate sample size, nonresponse bias, coverage bias, underreporting of trips, and other measurement errors. The goal in planning for the next survey is to consider how to develop a data collection program that can be sustainable, addresses the identified challenges, and maintain consistency throughout time.

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