{"title":"COVID Future panel survey: A unique public dataset documenting how U.S. residents’ travel-related choices changed during the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s11116-024-10479-4","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> <p>The COVID-19 pandemic was an unprecedented global crisis that has impacted virtually everyone. We conducted a nationwide online longitudinal survey in the United States to collect information about the shifts in travel-related behavior and attitudes before, during, and after the pandemic. The survey asked questions about commuting, long distance travel, working from home, online learning, online shopping, pandemic experiences, attitudes, and demographic information. The survey was deployed to the same respondents thrice to observe how the responses to the pandemic have evolved over time. The first wave of the survey was conducted from April 2020 to June 2021, the second wave from November 2020 to August 2021, and the third wave from October 2021 to November 2021. In total, 9,265 responses were collected in the first wave; of these, 2,877 respondents returned for the second wave and 2,728 for the third wave. All survey data are publicly available. This unique dataset can aid policy makers’ decision making in areas including transport, workforce development, and more. This article demonstrates the framework for conducting this online longitudinal survey. It details the step-by-step procedure involved in conducting the survey and in curating the data to make it representative of the national trends.</p>","PeriodicalId":49419,"journal":{"name":"Transportation","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5000,"publicationDate":"2024-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Transportation","FirstCategoryId":"5","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-024-10479-4","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"ENGINEERING, CIVIL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic was an unprecedented global crisis that has impacted virtually everyone. We conducted a nationwide online longitudinal survey in the United States to collect information about the shifts in travel-related behavior and attitudes before, during, and after the pandemic. The survey asked questions about commuting, long distance travel, working from home, online learning, online shopping, pandemic experiences, attitudes, and demographic information. The survey was deployed to the same respondents thrice to observe how the responses to the pandemic have evolved over time. The first wave of the survey was conducted from April 2020 to June 2021, the second wave from November 2020 to August 2021, and the third wave from October 2021 to November 2021. In total, 9,265 responses were collected in the first wave; of these, 2,877 respondents returned for the second wave and 2,728 for the third wave. All survey data are publicly available. This unique dataset can aid policy makers’ decision making in areas including transport, workforce development, and more. This article demonstrates the framework for conducting this online longitudinal survey. It details the step-by-step procedure involved in conducting the survey and in curating the data to make it representative of the national trends.
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In our first issue, published in 1972, we explained that this Journal is intended to promote the free and vigorous exchange of ideas and experience among the worldwide community actively concerned with transportation policy, planning and practice. That continues to be our mission, with a clear focus on topics concerned with research and practice in transportation policy and planning, around the world.
These four words, policy and planning, research and practice are our key words. While we have a particular focus on transportation policy analysis and travel behaviour in the context of ground transportation, we willingly consider all good quality papers that are highly relevant to transportation policy, planning and practice with a clear focus on innovation, on extending the international pool of knowledge and understanding. Our interest is not only with transportation policies - and systems and services – but also with their social, economic and environmental impacts, However, papers about the application of established procedures to, or the development of plans or policies for, specific locations are unlikely to prove acceptable unless they report experience which will be of real benefit those working elsewhere. Papers concerned with the engineering, safety and operational management of transportation systems are outside our scope.