New Trends of Travel Surveys in the United States

Abstract

In 1990's, size and budget of travel surveys has been expanded to improve transportation plans in the US. This report introduces the current new topics of transportation surveys in the US. We summarize the topics by intra-metropolitan area survey and inter-city survey. Especially, 1) Activity-Based survey, 2) Continuous survey, 3) a large size inter-city passenger or freight survey are introduced in detail. Finally, we discuss some differences of travel survey's features between the US and Japan, and we suggest the further topics to be studied in Japan.