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Cars, Congestion, Public Transport, and Pricing: A Reality Check
Published 2003-06-01
For some little while now, the flavour of the month in transport policy seems to have been to set goals for massive relative increases in public transport ridership, reduction of car use, all resulting in a hoped-for ...
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Working Paper
Standards for Household Travel Surveys-Some Proposals
Published 2004-06-01
Rising costs of household travel surveys and the critical need for good quality data, has led to questions about how best to obtain a quality survey that provides data comparable to other household travel surveys. To provide ...
Open Access
Working Paper
A Review of the Procedures Associated with Devising Emergency Evacuation Plans
Published 2004-03-01
The incidence of freak weather and geological events, such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, has increased over the past thirty years. Coupled with an increase in the populations located in the path of these natural ...
Open Access
Working Paper
Exploring the Use of Passive GPS Devices to Measure Travel
Published 2002-01-01
Global Positioning System devices are emerging as a potential means to collect improved data on the spatial aspects of personal travel. In many applications, the GPS device is coupled with a Personal Data Assistant of some ...
Open Access
Working Paper
A Panel Approach to Evaluating TravelSmart Initiatives in the Short Term – South Australia Pilot Survey
Published 2006-07-01
An unusual TravelSmart intervention is being undertaken in South Australia, in which the intervention will take place over a period of about two years, using a variety of techniques to gain increasing acceptance from the ...
Open Access
Working Paper
Households on the Move: Experiences of a New Approach to Voluntary Travel Behaviour Change
Published 2006-10-01
Voluntary travel behaviour change approaches have been used in most of the capital cities of Australia over the past few years. In a new approach to this strategy, Canberra carried out a pilot test of applying the strategy ...
Open Access
Working Paper
Mixed Method Data Collection in Travel Surveys: Challenges and Opportunities
Published 2006-10-01
The Transport and Population Data Centre (TPDC) has been running the Sydney Household Travel Survey as a continuous survey since 1997/8. It collects information on day-to-day travel in the Greater Sydney Metropolitan Region. ...
Open Access
Working Paper
Advances in GPS Technology for Measuring Travel
Published 2006-07-01
Since the late 1990s, GPS has begun to be used as a method for measuring personal travel. Early devices were for in-vehicle use only and derived their power from the accessory socket of the car. In the early 2000s, the ...
Open Access
Working Paper
Establishing and Using a Before and After Panel Survey: Case Study of New South Wales
Published 2006-07-01
This paper describes the use of a panel in a pilot TravelSmart project in New South Wales. The survey was conducted using two-day diaries, for which households were initially contacted and recruited by phone, and then sent ...
Open Access
Working Paper
Estimating Eligibility Rates: A Crucial Component of the Calculation for Response Rates
Published 2004-04-01
Response rates are used by analysts to assess survey quality: higher response rates are usually desired to reduce the incidence of non-response bias. The response rate is simply defined as the ratio of the number of completed ...
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