TTS2.0: A research and development (R&D) project on passenger travel survey methods

This paper describes a multi-year R&D project on developing the next generation of passenger travel survey methods for operational use in the Greater Golden Horseshoe (GGH) that was currently underway at the time of writing and reports on results obtained to date. While the current household travel survey method used in the GGH for passenger travel surveys – the Transportation Tomorrow Survey (TTS) – has been used for efficiently gathering standardized, high-quality travel information for the Greater Golden Horseshoe (GGH) region over the past 25 years, changes in communications technologies and other methodological issues are presenting increasing challenges to the current TTS method. In many ways, these issues are germane to any household travel survey. Passenger travel survey data are critical to our collective, on-going transportation planning, policy analysis, and decision-making. So, it is essential to develop and test new data collection methods that will be available to supplement or replace the current practices of household travel surveys. The TTS2.0 is such an R&D program that is investigating and testing a broad range of alternative designs, leading to a recommended new, comprehensive passenger travel survey program for the GGH. It has been carefully designed to address this challenge.

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household travel surveys; core-satellite design; multi-instrument travel data; web-based surveys; smartphone apps; data fusion