LINKS
LINKS
Organizations
Case Examples in Japan
- The results outline of a Probe Person Survey to measure the impact of the launch of Tsukuba Express Train Service.
(Traffic Engineering Division, Road Department, National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management, MLIT) - Portal Site for Comprehensive Measures Against Congestion of Kosaka Intersection Grade Separation Project
(Matsuyama Office of River and National Highway,Shikoku Regional Development Bureau, MLIT; Ehime Prefectural Police Headquarters; Ehime University)
Providing traffic forecasts at 30 minutes and at one hour later
Providing the next day's and weekly traffic forecasts - "Mach-aruki, Eco-point Experiment at Matsuyama": a social experiment for the development of a compact and ecological town
(MTEC: Matsuyama Travel Environmental Oriented City Planning Consortium)
Overseas Case Examples
- TMIP Connection, the Travel Model Improvement Program Newsletter, 2004 Spring issue [a PDF file: 596KB]
This issue features "GPS Applications in Transportation Planning and Modeling" - Report of NHTS (National Household Travel Survey Conference) held at 2004 TRB Annual Meeting
(TRB: Transportation Research Board) - Providing real-time traffic information using portable probes(Department of Transportation, Maryland, USA)
Displaying traffic conditions by number of vehicles in each speed rank, on the "Traffic" page of its "Interactive Mapping" section. - Report of surveys conducted in Lexington metropolitan area (FHWA, US Department of Transportation)
"Lexington Area Travel Data Collection Test / Final Report", a report on GPS for Personal Travel Surveys (Prepared by Battelle for FHWA, September, 1997.) [a PDF file: 840KB]
The world first large-scale survey using GPS and PDA, covering 294 respondents from 100 households, measuring Day-to-Day Variability in Travel Behavior Using GPS Data. - An example applied to a person trip (PT) survey in California(California, USA)
"2000-2001 California Statewide Household Travel Survey / Final Report"
A Probe Person survey was conducted covering 517 households for a total of 776 respondents, as part of a PT survey in 2000. - An example applied in a PT survey in the St. Louis metropolitan area [PDF:1.05MB] (USA)
"HOUSEHOLD TRAVEL SURVEY Final Report of Survey Results"
A Probe Person survey was conducted covering 313 households for a total of 666 respondents as part of a PT survey in St. Louis in 2002. - An example applied to a PT survey in London metropolitan area (Department for Transport , London, UK)
The survey was conducted with 134 respondents in 2002. - An example applied to a PT survey in Kansas City metropolitan area(MARK: Mid-America Regional Council, USA)
A GPS survey and a conventional CATI (Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing) were conducted in parallel over a three-month period of February through April 2004, covering 228 households. The results were compared and analyzed to identify the causes for unreported and incorrectly reported information of trips observed in the conventional PT survey method.
Workshops
Probe PERSON, JSTE Probe Research Group