Title: INDIANA UNIVERSITY TRAVEL DEMAND SURVEY BY E-MAIL
Abstract: In cooperation with Indiana University (IU), a cost-effective travel demand survey was developed and administered to university students within a one month time frame using electronic methods. The travel patterns of (with 117,000 persons), like other university towns, are disproportionately influenced by student trip-making (36,000 students). Thus, the identification of student trip-making characteristics was considered essential in the development of a metropolitan travel model that calibrates well in the replication of actual traffic counts. Due to time, financial, logistic and institutional constraints, the traditional methods of distribution and collection of surveys (mail-out/mail-back or telephone) could not be used. The university lacked a campus mail system, but did have a student E-mail system. Thus, 5,000 students were invited to participate in the student travel survey through their E-Mail address, and 583 students completed and submitted the travel survey electronically at a web site on the IU computer network. The travel survey asked traditional questions about household characteristics associated with trip generation; included a trip log for documenting trips by mode, origin and destination and purpose for a typical day; and included a map area showing a compression of the travel zones for recording the trip ends. The results of the survey were used to develop the travel demand model for the Bloomington Area Year 2025 Transportation Plan.
Publication Year: 2002
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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