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原文传递 Standardized Procedures for Personal Travel Surveys.

题名：	Standardized Procedures for Personal Travel Surveys.
作者：	Stopher-P.R.; Alsnih-R.; Wilmot-C.G.; Stecher-C.; Pratt-J.
关键词：	Personal-travel; Travel-surveys.;Data-collection; Data-assessments; Guidelines-; Recommendations-; Priorities-; Research-; Implementation-; Transportation-planning; Staffing-; Training-.
摘要：	Over the past 40 years, many millions of dollars have been spent on collecting household or person-based data for transportation planning. For most metropolitan areas, the largest routine expenditure made from planning budgets is to conduct household or person travel surveys. In some cases, the metropolitan regions that commission travel surveys do not have staff with in-depth knowledge and experience in that field. As a result, some Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) are unable to make informed selections of consultants to perform surveys and are also unable to assess whether a useful product was obtained. Subsequent work in using the data often reveals serious flaws in the data that could have been avoided if there were either a sufficient availability of expertise at the MPOs or a set of clearly defined procedures that could be followed by an MPO in guiding the process, selecting consultants, and assessing the work that was done. Some consultants who undertake such work are also unaware of the difficulties involved in data collection and have a lack of knowledge and expertise in various aspects of collection and assessment of the data that are apparent neither to them nor to the MPOs that may select them. They, too, could benefit from a set of standardized procedures and measures that would aid them in determining the type of survey to undertake, the methods to be implemented, and the means to assess whether the survey was being executed satisfactorily.
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