Travel time data collection handbook

Details

• Creators:
  Turner, Shawn M. ; Eisele, William L. ; Benz, Robert J. ; Holdener, Douglas J.
• Corporate Contributors:
  Texas Transportation Institute
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Travel time
  • Data collection
  • Methodology
  • Handbooks
  • Intelligent transportation systems programs
  • Test vehicles
  • Programming (Planning)
  • License plate matching techniques
  • Research planning
  • Summarization of data
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA-PL-98-035
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1404545
• Resource Type:
  Manual
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Description:
  This Travel Time Data Collection Handbook provides guidance to transportation
  
  professionals and practitioners for the collection, reduction, and presentation
  
  of travel time data. The handbook should be a useful reference for designing
  
  travel time data collection efforts and systems, performing travel time studies,
  
  and reducing and presenting travel time data. Initial chapters of the handbook
  
  describe how to design data collection activities, including the determination of parameters such as study size and scope, data collection technique, and other
  
  critical study elements. Chapters 3 through 6 include a description of each data
  
  collection technique, major advantages and disadvantages, cost and equipment
  
  requirements, and step-by-step instructions. Related experience with the data
  
  collection techniques is included for examples of applications. Chapter 7
  
  provides guidance for reducing travel time data and preparing tabular and
  
  graphical presentations. The handbooks opens with an interactive Table of
  
  Contents, allowing the viewer to select the desired chapter.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/4491/dot_4491_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 29.63 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Federal Highway Administration
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:23368a08299db4a9bdf00dddf4fc4eca78721fd3ccb00877eeda3f8476fe6d6e56379c8f96227ddd76c3c3e391040ed7954cecd18105292997b0fab165d1d6ad