Current Science

M. Manoj ¹, Ashish Verma ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning (CiSTUP), Bengaluru 560 012, IN
2 Centre for Infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning (CiSTUP), Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru 560 012, IN

Abstract

Studies on travel survey instrument design and administration in the context of Indian cities are limited despite the fact that these aspects of travel survey face unique challenges here when compared to the cities in the developed world. Here we report results of a pilot survey conducted for evaluating the performances, alternative diary formats and survey administration techniques in Bengaluru city, India. The study proposes two diary formats. 'Diary-1' is in day-planner format and is a variant of the one reported earlier in the literature. 'Diary-2' is derived as a combination of 'Diary-1' and the trip-based dairies widely applied in Indian cities. 'Face-to-face', and 'drop-off and pick-up' methods of survey administration are considered for retrieving the activitytravel information of individuals. Evidence appears to be strong that diary-2 is preferable to diary-1 for collecting the travel details of individuals. The comparison of the retrieval methods suggests that the face-toface method of instrument administration is superior to the drop-off and pick-up method in terms of higher response rates and minimum recording errors.

Keywords

Activity-Travel Survey, Combined Diary Format, Design and Administration, Transportation Systems.

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