Transport survey quality and innovation / edited by P. Jones, Peter R. Stopher.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

Prelims -- Developing standards of transport survey quality -- Planning and managing a household survey and a population census in a multicultural and multilingual context -- The joys and tribulations of a continuous survey -- Measuring the internal quality of the Montreal CATI household travel survey -- Designing instruments to improve response -- Looking beyond commuter travel in Cape Town: methodological lessons from the application of an activity-based travel survey -- Survey instrument design -- Time-space diaries: merging traditions -- Quality and innovation in time use and activity surveys -- Multi-cultural and multi-lingual transport surveys, with special reference to the african experience -- Multi-lingual and multi-cultural conditions -- Postal, telephone, and face-to-face surveys: how comparable are they? -- Mixed mode surveys -- Multi-day and multi-period data -- Standards and practice for multi-day and multi-period surveys -- Qualitative methods in travel behaviour research -- A qualitative survey technique to explore decision making behaviour in new contexts -- On the role of qualitative methods in travel surveys -- Can you get there from here? a viewpoint on stated response survey innovation and quality -- Stated preference surveys: do we have confidence tests of the results? -- Ensuring quality in stated response surveys -- Non-household surveys -- Non-standard, non-household surveys -- Insights on freight and commercial vehicle data needs -- Tracking along the transport chain via the shipper survey -- The challenges of freight and commercial transport surveys -- Impact of new technologies in travel surveys -- Trip rate analysis in gps-enhanced personal travel surveys -- Using technology to improve transport survey quality -- Respondent burden -- From respondent burden to respondent delight -- Reducing the effects of item nonresponse in transport surveys -- Comparison of hot-deck and neural-network imputation -- Item nonresponse -- Nonresponse and travel surveys -- Definitions of unit nonresponse in travel surveys -- Public use of travel surveys: the metadata perspective -- Data interrogation and management -- Summary and future directions.

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