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Design and collection of the NETI New England travel survey.
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2010-07-01
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Abstract:The purpose of the New England Transportation Issues Study was to create a “portrait” of rural
transportation patterns in the Northeast. Applying the concepts of both “mobility” and “accessibility,” the
study explored the issue of “rural isolation,” and how perceptions of isolation differ given age and
location of residence in rural versus suburban and urban areas. The study was undertaken by the New
England Transportation Institute (NETI) in cooperation with the University of Vermont Transportation
Research Center (UVM TRC.) The partnership between NETI and UVM TRC, as expressed in a
Memorandum of Understanding in support of the research, allowed for the creation of a data resource of
benefit to both institutions. In particular, the two groups determined that the information and data
collected by each group will be jointly owned and available for both parties to use in current and future
research. This includes education and advocacy for rural transportation planning issues.
NETI is conducting a multi-year research project that seeks to improve the understanding of rural
isolation and levels of mobility in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. It examines in some detail the
potential for residents in isolated locations to move to a location nearer to traditional town centers,
examines the constraints to such a change in location, and applies the logic of both “smart growth” and
“livability” strategies to Northeastern rural states. The data collection described in this report is one part
of the larger effort.
The survey draft was submitted to FHWA/ USDOT OST in January 2008, who approved its transmittal in
February, 2008 to OMB, where it received final approval. The initially planned survey was to be
conducted by mail and web. In working with the UVM team, it became clear that the initial scale of the
proposed NETI survey effort would not be large enough to serve the more fine grained needs of the UVM
research process, which would examine certain question (such as the effects of seasonality on travel). In
response, the UVM and NETI agreed that UVM would contribute $60,000 to cover the cost of expanding
the sampling, designing, executing, tabulating and analyzing the NETI rural mobility study and the
processing of that survey, with NETI providing a parallel amount to serve as non-federal local share. In
2008, the UVM TRC submitted the research plan to the IRB process of the University, and has
undertaken the project following the procedures established thereby.
This report documents the survey research process undertaken, and documents the format of the data
describing the settlement patterns of the rural built environment developed as part of the NETI research
program.
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