Data collection E-commerce Travel demand Travel survey
With increased internet connectivity, there are more opportunities to substitute physical, or “in-person”, activities with online activities. With this, changes to household and individual travel/activity patterns are to be expected. For example, the increased adoption of e-commerce can affect individual travel destinations and frequency. To study these shifts, we enhance an existing smartphone-based travel/activity diary to capture online activities, with a focus on activities that can replace passenger trips. Furthermore, we expand the options to report shopping details, to better understand the influence of e-commerce on in-person shopping. In this paper, we detail the data collection tool development strategy and user-experience findings. Moreover, we provide insights from a pilot deployment in Singapore during 2020, which allowed measuring travel/activity behavior, expenditure, and time allocation changes during various COVID-19 pandemic travel restriction periods.
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Title
Online and in-person activity logging using a smartphone-based travel, activity, and time-use survey
Authors
André Alho - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cheng Cheng (Corresponding Author) - Institute of High Performance Computing
Dao Trung Hieu - Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology
Takanori Sakai - Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology
Fang Zhao - Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology
Moshe Ben-Akiva - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lynette Cheah - Singapore University of Technology and Design
Publication details
Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Vol.13, pp.1-12