Public transport agencies have used manual surveys
to collect demographic and travel diary information in order to
understand their customers' travel behavior for many years.
Recently many agencies have also begun to use automated sources of
data from fare collection, vehicle location, and passenger counting
systems to improve the understanding of their customers' detailed
geographic and temporal travel behavior as well as frequency of
usage, and travel pattern variation at a much larger scale than is
possible with manually collected survey data. Transport for London
(TfL), the public body responsible for all transportation services
in London, was chosen as a case study to determine how and to what
extent automatic fare card (Oyster) data can be used to enhance and
validate the London Travel Demand Survey (LTDS) single day travel
diary responses. This thesis found that combining survey responses
with linked Oyster data for specific households could greatly
enhance the validity of the single travel day and improve the
understanding of the variability of weekly public transport (PT)
use. However, it was difficult to match the survey diary responses
and Oyster card records after the interview had taken place. This
was evidenced by the fact that only 51.1% of Oyster journey stages
had matching survey journey stages, only 45.6% of survey stages had
matching Oyster stages, and only 44% of the sample had perfectly
matching survey and Oyster stages. Even when there were matches,
there were large differences in many journey start times and
durations with an average start time difference of 61.2 minutes.
This suggests that it would be advantageous to integrate the Oyster
records earlier in the survey process, using some type of prompted
recall methods with Oyster records in the near term, and new
location tracking smart phone applications in the future. Analysis
of the weekly variation in PT travel found that the single day
survey overestimates typical PT use overall, but it underestimates
the intensity of PT use on days when the survey sample chose to use
the PT mode. Additionally, the reported frequency of PT use in the
LTDS was significantly higher than the actual use as captured by
the Oyster system, and therefore the LTDS is generally
overestimating the PT use overall for London
residents.
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