GPS-supported smartphone app-based integrated travel diary and time-use data collection: challenges and lessons learned

IF 3.5 2区工程技术 Q1 ENGINEERING, CIVIL

Transportation Pub Date : 2024-10-28 DOI:10.1007/s11116-024-10546-w

Maliheh Tabasi, Amarin Siripanich, Nazmul Arefin Khan, Joshua Auld, Taha Hossein Rashidi

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Travel behaviour and time-use data are two vital data sources for travel demand modelling. Travel behaviour is traditionally collected through household travel surveys, enhanced by using GPS-supported smartphone apps for passive location data collection. However, recruiting individuals willing to install these apps with sustained motivation to continue participation has been a critical challenge. This paper shares insights from a travel and time-use data collection procedure in Chicago and Sydney using the Fourstep app. Social media platforms were utilised as a solution to recruit participants in Chicago, where an international market research company failed to accomplish the task. This paper also discusses the challenges we faced and suggests ways to overcome them, offering valuable guidance to researchers in recruiting participants for smartphone application-based data collection. It also offers an analysis of travel, time-use, and travel-based multitasking behaviours based on the data collected from the Chicago and Sydney samples.

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基于 GPS 支持的智能手机应用程序的综合旅行日记和时间使用数据收集：挑战与经验教训

旅行行为和时间使用数据是旅行需求建模的两个重要数据来源。传统的旅行行为收集方式是通过家庭旅行调查，并通过使用支持 GPS 的智能手机应用程序进行被动位置数据收集。然而，如何招募愿意安装这些应用程序并有持续参与动力的个人一直是个严峻的挑战。本文分享了使用 Fourstep 应用程序在芝加哥和悉尼进行的旅行和时间使用数据收集过程中获得的启示。在芝加哥，社交媒体平台被用作招募参与者的解决方案，因为一家国际市场调研公司未能完成这项任务。本文还讨论了我们所面临的挑战，并提出了克服这些挑战的方法，为研究人员招募基于智能手机应用的数据收集参与者提供了宝贵的指导。本文还根据从芝加哥和悉尼样本收集到的数据，对旅行、时间使用和基于旅行的多任务处理行为进行了分析。

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Transportation 工程技术-工程：土木

CiteScore

10.70

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4.70%

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审稿时长

6-12 weeks

期刊介绍： 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.