A longitudinal household travel survey: issues of design, nonresponse and variation in travel behaviour

摘要

A large longitudinal household travel survey conducted during the typical and the summer period in Attika for the needs of the Metro Development Study (MDS) encountered complex design and execution issues. The paper discusses the variation of basic socioeconomic figures between periods as well as tentative results on travel characteristics for the typical period followed by a cross sectional comparison of travel patterns reveraled within the frame of similar studies conducted in the past decades.