Household travel surveys: Where are we going?

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 367-381

  Stopher, Peter R ^a   Greaves, Stephen P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Data collection; Data fusion; GPS; Panel surveys; Travel demand modelling; Travel diaries

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; TRAFFIC SURVEYS;

AUSTRALIA; DATA FUSION; HOUSEHOLD TRAVEL SURVEYS; PANEL SURVEYS; TRAVEL DEMAND MODELLING;

DATA ACQUISITION;

GPS; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; PANEL DATA; TRAVEL DEMAND;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33845890787     PISSN: 09658564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2006.09.005     Document Type: Article

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