Tracking daily travel; Assessing discrepancies between GPS-derived and self-reported travel patterns

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 48, Issue , 2014, Pages 97-108

  Houston, Douglas ^a   Luong, Thuy T ^a   Boarnet, Marlon G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Global Positioning Systems; Self report; Travel behavior; Travel survey data collection

Indexed keywords

TRANSPORTATION;

AVERAGE DIFFERENCE; EVALUATION STUDY; MEASUREMENT TOOLS; SELF-REPORT; SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSPORTATION CORRIDORS; TRAVEL BEHAVIORS; TRAVEL SURVEYS;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; GPS; TRANSPORTATION MODE; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; URBAN TRANSPORT;

CALIFORNIA; LOS ANGELES [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84930941612     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2014.08.013     Document Type: Article

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