TRB Travel Survey Methods Committee (ABJ40)

TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD

ABJ40 Travel Survey Methods Committee

Chair: Kara Kockelman

Travel Survey Manual Wiki Site

CALL FOR PAPERS: March 2009

Data Needs for Freight Decision Making

Passively Collected Travel Data: Issues of Access, Storage, Quality Control, Validation and Application

Methodologies to Capture Long-Distance Travel Data

Intelligent Processing of GPS Data for Travel Modes and Activities

CURRENT DOCUMENTS

Spring 2009 Committee Minutes from Houston (posted June 2009)

Research Needs Statements (Last edited: February, 2009)

Annual Committee Meeting Minutes (January, 2009)

Summer 2008 Committee Minutes from Annecy, France (posted June 2008)

Spring 2008 Data & Information Systems Section Retreat (posted April 2008)

2008 NHTS Summary of Content — Core Data Items (posted April 2008)

Annual Committee Meeting Minutes (January, 2008)

Strategic Plan (Finalized: July, 2007)

Committee Goals

The current goals of the committee are to enhance the quality and usefulness of transportation surveys done at the local, state, and national levels. Read more...

The committee focuses on all types of transportation surveys, including:

motorized and non-motorized travel;
household and commercial travel;
travel involving single or multiple occupancy vehicles, including public transit; and
workplace, visitor, or recreational travel.

The committee is concerned with survey design, sampling, instrument development, data collection, processing, and analysis, and reporting of results. Enhancing the quality and usefulness of survey products for policy and planning is of primary interest.