Citation

Denstadli JM, Hjorthol RJ. J. Transp. Geogr. 2003; 11(1): 47-54.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/S0966-6923(02)00053-4

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This paper presents results from a pilot study to the Norwegian Personal Travel Survey 2001 designed to test the quality of geographical information in travel surveys. The use of travel surveys to produce input data for transport modelling requires respondents to provide adequate geographical information on their trips. Data from a telephone survey of 1500 respondents are analysed, and it is shown that people in general are capable of recalling street addresses of places they have been to or give alternative geographical information to help locate trips at a set level. However, the accuracy of location recall varies with respect to place of residence, trip purpose and transport mode.