A Profile of Public Transportation Passenger Demographics and Travel Characteristics Reported in On-Board Surveys
Year: 2007
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Data from 150 on-board vehicle passenger surveys conducted by public transportation agencies from\n2000 through 2005 were compiled. This is the largest ever on-board survey study about the public\ntransportation industry. These surveys summarized the results of questionnaires completed by over\n496,000 public transit riders sampled by transit systems that carry 60 percent of all transit trips in the\nUnited States. They describe the demographics and travel behavior of public transit trips and the\npeople who take those trips sampled by on-board surveys; they do not describe the average person\nwho may take public transportation. Each time a person takes a transit trip while their system is\nconducting a survey, that person has a statistical probability of being sampled. The data are therefore\nimplicitly "weighted" by frequency of riding. A person who rides transit more often has a higher\nlikelihood of being sampled, or being sampled more often, than a person who rides fewer times.\n
Source: ROSA P
Authors: John Neff, Larry Pham
Language: English
Subfield: Transportation
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W87718328