<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Advances in smartphone technology have allowed for individuals to have access to near-continuous location tracking at a very precise level. As the backbone of mobility research, the Travel Diary Study, has continued to offer decreasing response rates over the years, researchers are looking to these mobile devices to bridge the gap between self-report recall studies and a person’s underlying travel behavior. This article details an open-source application that collects real-time location data which respondents may then annotate to provide a detailed travel diary. Results of the field test involving 674 participants are discussed, including technical performance, data quality and response rate.</p></abstract>

Advances in smartphone technology have allowed for individuals to have access to near-continuous location tracking at a very precise level. As the backbone of mobility research, the Travel Diary Study, has continued to offer decreasing response rates over the years, researchers are looking to these mobile devices to bridge the gap between self-report recall studies and a person’s underlying travel behavior. This article details an open-source application that collects real-time location data which respondents may then annotate to provide a detailed travel diary. Results of the field test involving 674 participants are discussed, including technical performance, data quality and response rate.

An App-Assisted Travel Survey in Official Statistics: Possibilities and Challenges

Journal of Official Statistics

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Advances in smartphone technology have allowed for individuals to have access to near-continuous location tracking at a very precise level. As the backbone of...

An App-Assisted Travel Survey in Official Statistics: Possibilities and Challenges

Published Online: Mar 13, 2021

Page range: 149 - 170

Received: Jan 01, 2020

Accepted: Dec 01, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jos-2021-0007

Keywords
Non-response, travel diary, sensor data for surveys, app design, android background restriction

© 2020 Danielle McCool et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

An App-Assisted Travel Survey in Official Statistics: Possibilities and Challenges

Published Online: Mar 13, 2021

Page range: 149 - 170

Received: Jan 01, 2020

Accepted: Dec 01, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jos-2021-0007

KeywordsNon-response, travel diary, sensor data for surveys, app design, android background restriction

© 2020 Danielle McCool et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Non-response, travel diary, sensor data for surveys, app design, android background restriction