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Appendix A
Study on Strategies for Improved
Passenger and Freight Travel Data
Statement of Task
T
his study will assess the state of passenger and freight travel data
at the federal, state, and local levels and make recommendations
for an affordable and sustainable system for estimating personal
and freight travel to support public and private transportation planning
and decision making. Most travel data at the federal, state, or local levels
are collected in one-off surveys or programs that are highly contingent
upon shifting political and funding priorities and not infrequently in
danger of cancellation. The primary emphasis of this project will be
on understanding user needs for travel data and developing a practical,
achievable, and affordable strategy for collection of, and funding for,
essential travel data programs.
To create responsive, cost-effective, and sustainable data programs for
personal and freight travel data, user needs should be understood, current
and emerging barriers to such data programs identified, new approaches
for collecting data assessed, costs evaluated, and benefits documented.
With these goals in mind, the committee will qualitatively examine the
effectiveness and feasibility of promising innovations in data collection,
such as continuous longitudinal surveys, web surveys, and methods to
capture data from automated sources (e.g., probe vehicles, cell phone
probes, radio frequency identification tags), and recommend strategies
for ensuring the timely availability and quality of essential travel data at
acceptable costs.
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