Capturing Long-Distance Travel
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Author(s): K. Axhausen et al.
Publisher: Research Studies Press
ISBN: 0863802575
Format: hardback
342pp
Price: £65.00
Review Date: 30 June 2003
Review: This book is the result of the collaboration of a large number of European workers involved in a project to study the long-distance travel patterns of people across Europe. The project had three approaches: to measure the travel through specially-designed surveys; to look at the methodological issues involved in setting up such surveys; and the technologies involved. There are chapters on: defining the scope of a long-distance travel survey; the 1995 Austrian survey; MEST survey work; the reliability of household surveys for air travel; combining long-distance surveys; weighting and correcting the surveys; sample selection; GIS-based enrichment; the WWW for travel diary analysis; and recommendations for a European survey.