New Technologies and Transportation Research

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New Technologies and Transportation Research

Applications of GPS in Travel Surveys

9781783474868 Edward Elgar Publishing
Edited by Peter Stopher, Emeritus Professor of Transport Planning, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, The University of Sydney Business School, Australia
Publication Date: 2016 ISBN: 978 1 78347 486 8 Extent: 736 pp
This book presents a collection of the most significant papers to have been published over the past fifteen years on the use of Global Positioning System (GPS) devices to measure person and vehicle travel. The carefully selected papers are prefaced by an original introduction. They track developments in the use of GPS devices to record travel and document some of the latest applications in which GPS is starting to replace conventional self-report surveys.

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This book presents a collection of the most significant papers to have been published over the past fifteen years on the use of Global Positioning System (GPS) devices to measure person and vehicle travel. The carefully selected papers are prefaced by an original introduction. They track developments in the use of GPS devices to record travel and document some of the latest applications in which GPS is starting to replace conventional self-report surveys.
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50 articles, dating from 1996 to 2013
Contributors include: K. Axhausen, S. Bricka, S. Doherty, S. Greaves, M. Lee-Gosselin, K. Maat, C. Quiroga, L. Shen, P. Stopher, J. Wolf
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Contents:

Introduction
Peter Stopher

Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction Peter Stopher xix

PART I INITIAL EXPLORATION
1. Wayne A. Sarasua and Michael D. Meyer (1996), ‘New Technologies for Household Travel Surveys’, in Transportation Research Board/National Research Council: Conference Proceedings 10, Washington, DC, USA: National Academy Press, 170–82

2. Cesar A. Quiroga and Darcy Bullock (1998), ‘Travel Time Studies with Global Positioning and Geographic Information Systems: An Integrated Methodology’, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 6 (1–2), February, 101–27

3. E. Murakami and D.P. Wagner (1999), ‘Can Using Global Positioning System (GPS) Improve Trip Reporting?’, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 7 (2–3), April–June, 149–65

4. Jean Wolf, Shauna Hallmark, Marcelo Oliveira, Randall Guensler and Wayne Sarasua (1999), ‘Accuracy Issues with Route Choice Data Collection by Using Global Positioning System’, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1660, Washington, DC, USA: Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences, 66–74

5. Lalit Yalamanchili, Ram M. Pendyala, N. Prabaharan and Pramodh Chakravarthy (1999), ‘Analysis of Global Positioning System-Based Data Collection Methods for Capturing Multistop Trip-Chaining Behavior’, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1660, Washington, DC, USA: Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences, 58–65

6. Geert Draijer, Nelly Kalfs and Jan Perdok (2000), ‘Global Positioning System as Data Collection Method for Travel Research’, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1719, Washington, DC, USA: Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences, 147–53

7. Elaine Murakami, David P. Wagner and David M. Neumeister (2000), ‘Using Global Positioning Systems and Personal Digital Assistants for Personal Travel Surveys in the United States’,Transportation Research Circular E-C008 , Washington, DC, USA: Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, III-B/1–III-B/21

8. Sean T. Doherty, Nathalie Noël, Martin-Lee Gosselin, Claude Sirois and Mami Ueno (2001), ‘Moving beyond Observed Outcomes: Integrating Global Positioning Systems and Interactive Computer-Based Travel Behavior Surveys’, Transportation Research Circular E-C026 — Personal Travel: The Long and Short of It , Washington, DC, USA: Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, 449–66

9. Peter R. Stopher, Philip Bullock and Frederic Horst (2002), ‘Exploring the Use of Passive GPS Devices to Measure Travel’, in Kelvin C.P. Wang, Samer Madanat, Shashi Nambisan and Gary Spring (eds), Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Applications of Advanced Technologies in Transportation, Reston, VA, USA: American Society of Civil Engineers, 959–67

PART II DEVELOPING PROCESSING SOFTWARE
10. Jean Wolf, Randall Guensler and William Bachman (2001), ‘Elimination of the Travel Diary: Experiment to Derive Trip Purpose from Global Positioning System Travel Data’, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1768 , Washington, DC, USA: Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences, 125–34

11. J. Wolf, S. Schönfelder, U. Samaga, M. Oliveira and K.W. Axhausen (2004), ‘Eighty Weeks of Global Positioning System Traces: Approaches to Enriching Trip Information’, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1870 , Washington, DC, USA: Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences, 46–54

12. Stefan Schönfelder, Kay W. Axhausen, Nicolas Antille and Michel Bierlaire (2002), ‘Exploring the Potentials of Automatically Collected GPS Data for Travel Behaviour Analysis – A Swedish Data Source’, GI-Technologien für Verkehr und Logistik , Institut für Geoinformatik, Universität Münster, No. 13

13. Eui-Hwan Chung and Amer Shalaby (2005), ‘A Trip Reconstruction Tool for GPS-based Personal Travel Surveys’, Transportation Planning and Technology , 28 (5), 381–401

14. Timothy L. Forrest and David F. Pearson (2005), ‘Comparison of Trip Determination Methods in Household Travel Surveys Enhanced by a Global Positioning System’, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1917 , Washington, DC, USA: Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences, 63–71

15. F. Marchal, J. Hackney and K.W. Axhausen (2005), ‘Efficient Map Matching of Large Global Positioning System Data Sets: Tests on Speed-Monitoring Experiment in Zürich’, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1935 , Washington, DC, USA: Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences, 93–100

16. Jianhe Du and Lisa Aultman-Hall (2007), ‘Increasing the Accuracy of Trip Rate Information from Passive Multi-day GPS Travel Datasets: Automatic Trip End Identification Issues’, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice , 41 (3), March, 220–32

17. Zhigang Jason Li and Amer S. Shalaby (2008), ‘Web-Based GIS System for Prompted Recall of GPS-assisted Personal Travel Surveys: System Development and Experimental Study’, Transportation Research Board: 87th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers DVD , Washington, DC, USA: Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences, 1–15

18. Wendy Bohte and Kees Maat (2009), ‘Deriving and Validating Trip Purposes and Travel Modes for Multi-day GPS-Based Travel Surveys: A Large-Scale Application in the Netherlands’, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies , 17 (3), June, 285–97

19. Nadine Schuessler and Kay W. Axhausen (2009), ‘Processing Raw Data from Global Positioning Systems Without Additional Information’, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2105 , Washington, DC, USA: Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences, 28–36

20. Peter R. Stopher (2009), ‘Collecting and Processing Data from Mobile Technologies’, in Patrick Bonnel, Martin Lee-Gosselin, Johanna Zmud and Jean-Loup Madre (eds), Transport Survey Methods: Keeping up with a Changing World , Chapter 21, Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 361–91

21. Anastasia Moiseeva, Joran Jessurun and Harry Timmermans (2010), ‘Semiautomatic Imputation of Activity Travel Diaries: Use of Global Positioning System Traces, Prompted Recall, and Context-Sensitive Learning Algorithms’, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2183, Washington, DC, USA: Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences, 60–68

PART III PROMPTED RECALL SURVEYS
22. Prashanth K. Bachu, Trisha Dudala and Sirisha M. Kothuri (2001), ‘Prompted Recall in Global Positioning System Survey: Proof-of-Concept Study’, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1768, Washington, DC, USA: Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences,106–13 311

23. Stephen Greaves, Simon Fifer, Richard Ellison and George Germanos (2010), ‘Development of a Global Positioning System Web-Based Prompted Recall Solution for Longitudinal Travel Surveys’, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2183, Washington, DC, USA: Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences, 69–77

PART IV VALIDATING CONVENTIONAL SURVEYS
24. Jean Wolf, Michael Loechl, Miriam Thompson and Carlos Arce (2003), ‘Trip Rate Analysis in GPS-Enhanced Personal Travel Surveys’, in Peter Stopher and Peter Jones (eds), Transport Survey Quality and Innovation, Chapter 28, Oxford, UK: Permagon, 483–98

25. Jean Wolf, Marcelo Oliveira and Miriam Thompson (2003), ‘Impact of Underreporting on Mileage and Travel Time Estimates: Results from Global Positioning System-Enhanced Household Travel Survey’, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1854, Washington, DC, USA: Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences, 189–98

26. Johanna Zmud and Jean Wolf (2003), ‘Identifying the Correlates of Trip Misreporting – Results from the California Statewide Household Travel Survey GPS Study’, Conference Paper, Session XXX, Moving through Nets: The Physical and Social Dimensions of Travel, 10th International Conference on Travel Behaviour Research, 10–15 August, Lucerne, Switzerland, i, 1–16

27. Matthias Kracht (2006), ‘Using Combined GPS and GSM Tracking Information for Interactive Electronic Questionnaires’, in Peter Stopher and Cheryl Stecher (eds), Travel Survey Methods: Quality and Future Directions, Chapter 30, Oxford, UK: Elsevier, 545–60

28. Stacey Bricka and Chandra R. Bhat (2006), ‘Comparative Analysis of Global Positioning System-Based and Travel Survey-Based Data’, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1972, Washington, DC, USA: Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences, 9–20

29. Jean Wolf (2006), ‘Applications of New Technologies in Travel Surveys’, in Peter Stopher and Cheryl Stecher (eds), Travel Survey Methods: Quality and Future Directions , Chapter 29, Oxford, UK: Elsevier, 531–44

30. Peter Stopher, Camden FitzGerald and Min Xu (2007), ‘Assessing the Accuracy of the Sydney Household Travel Survey with GPS’, Transportation , 34 (6), November, 723–41

31. Tom Bellemans, Bruno Kochan, Davy Janssens, Geert Wets and Harry Timmermans (2008), ‘Field Evaluation of Personal Digital Assistant Enabled by Global Positioning System: Impact on Quality of Activity and Diary Data’, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2049, Washington, DC, USA: Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences, 136–43

32. Peter Stopher and Stephen Greaves (2009), ‘Missing and Inaccurate Information from Travel Surveys – Pilot Results’, Paper Presented to the 32nd Australasian Transport Research Forum, The Growth Engine: Interconnecting Transport Performance, the Economy and the Environment, Auckland, New Zealand, September

PART V APPLICATIONS OF GPS TO TRAVEL MEASUREMENT
33. Jennifer Ogle, Randall Guensler, William Bachman, Maxim Koutsakand Jean Wolf (2002), ‘Accuracy of Global Positioning System for
Determining Driver Performance Parameters’, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1818 , Washington, DC, USA: Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences, 12–24

34. Cesar Quiroga, Michael Perez and Steve Venglar (2002), ‘Tool for Measuring Travel Time and Delay on Arterial Corridors’, in Kelvin C.P. Wang, Samer Madanat, Shashi Nambisan and Gary Spring (eds), Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Applications of Advanced Technologies in Transportation , Reston, VA, USA: American Society of Civil Engineers, 600–607

35. Philip Bullock, Qingjian Jiang and Peter R. Stopher (2005), ‘Using GPS Technology to Measure On-Time Running of Scheduled Bus Services’, Journal of Public Transportation , 8 (1), 21–40

36. Jungwook Jun, Jennifer Ogle and Randall Guensler (2007), ‘Relationships between Crash Involvement and Temporal-Spatial Driving Behavior Activity Patterns Using GPS Instrumented Vehicle Data’, Transportation Research Board: 86th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers DVD , Washington, DC, USA: Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences, 2–17

37. Peter Stopher and Christine Prasad (2012), ‘Analysis of Child Diaries – Can GPS Traces of Parents Movements Provide Sufficient Travel Data for Children?’, Paper Presented to the 35th Australasian Transport Research Forum, Perth, Australia, September, 1–11

38. Roger Mackett, Belinda Brown, Yi Gong, Kay Kitazawa and James Paskins (2007), ‘Children’s Independent Movement in the Local Environment’, Built Environment , 33 (4), December, 454–68

39. Stephen P. Greaves and Miguel A. Figliozzi (2008), ‘Collecting Commercial Vehicle Tour Data with Passive Global Positioning System Technology: Issues and Potential Applications’, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2049 , Washington, DC, USA: Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences, 158–66

40. Dominik Papinski, Darren M. Scott and Sean T. Doherty (2009), ‘Exploring the Route Choice Decision-Making Process: A Comparison of Planned and Observed Routes Obtained Using Person-Based GPS’, Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour , 12 (4), July, 347–58

41. Andrew F. Clark and Sean T. Doherty (2010), ‘A Multi-Instrumented Approach to Observing the Activity Rescheduling Decision Process’, Transportation, 37 (1), January, 165–81

42. Peter Stopher, Yun Zhang, Jun Zhang and Belinda Halling (2009), ‘Results of an Evaluation of TravelSmart in South Australia’, Paper Presented to the 32nd Australasian Transport Research Forum, The Growth Engine: Interconnecting Transport Performance, the Economy and the Environment, Auckland, New Zealand, September

PART VI REPLACING THE TRAVEL DIARY
43. Stacey Bricka, Johanna Zmud, Jean Wolf and Joel Freedman (2009), ‘Household Travel Surveys with GPS: An Experiment’, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2105 , Washington, DC, USA: Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences, 51–6

44. Peter R. Stopher, Christine Prasad, Laurie Wargelin and JasonMinser (2013), ‘Conducting a GPS-only Household Travel Survey’, in Johanna Zmud, Martin Lee-Gosselin, Marcela A. Munizaga and Juan Antonio Carrasco (eds), Transport Survey Methods: Best Practice for Decision Making , Chapter 5, Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 91–113

45. Marcelo G. Simas Oliveira, Peter Vovsha, Jean Wolf, Yehoshua Birotker, Danny Givon and Julie Paasche (2011), ‘Global Positioning System Assisted Prompted Recall Household Travel Survey to Support Development of Advanced Travel Model in Jerusalem, Israel’, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2246 , Washington, DC, USA: Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences, 16–23

PART VII THE FUTURE
46. Peter R. Stopher and Stephen P. Greaves (2007), ‘Household Travel Surveys: Where are We Going?’, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice , 41 (5), June, 367–81

47. Peter R. Stopher and Stephen P. Greaves (2007), ‘Guidelines for Samplers: Measuring a Change in Behaviour from Before and After Surveys’, Transportation , 34 (1), January, 1–16

48. Peter R. Stopher, Kara Kockelman, Stephen P. Greaves and Eoin Clifford (2008), ‘Reducing Burden and Sample Sizes in Multiday Household Travel Surveys’, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2064 , Washington, DC, USA: Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences, 12–18

49. Marcelo G. Simas Oliveira and Jesse Casas (2010), ‘Improving Data Quality, Accuracy, and Response in On-Board Surveys: Application of Innovative Technologies’, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2183 , Washington, DC, USA: Transportation Research Board, National Academy of Sciences, 41–8

50. Martin Lee-Gosselin, Sean T. Doherty and Amer Shalaby (2010), ‘Data Collection on Personal Movement Using Mobile ICTs: Old Wine in New Bottles?’, in Monica Wachowicz (ed.), Movement- Aware Applications for Sustainable Mobility: Technologies and Approaches , Chapter 1, Hershey, VA, USA: Information Science Reference (IGI Global), 1–14

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