2011 Atlanta, Georgia, Regional Travel Survey

Team, TSDC

doi:10.15483/1924685

Title: 2011 Atlanta, Georgia, Regional Travel Survey

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The 2011 Regional Travel Survey collected trip data from households across 20 counties in and around Atlanta, Georgia, to improve regional travel demand forecasts. The survey was conducted by PTV NuStats, GeoStats, and PG Americas Inc. on behalf of the Atlanta Regional Commission. The goal was to collect trip data from a minimum of 10,000 households with a subsample of 1,000 households providing global positioning system (GPS) data. The GPS add-on consisted of two sample groups. The first sample group was provided with GPS devices to install in their personal vehicles (797 vehicles) to collect the speed and location of a vehicle during an assigned study period. The second sample group (1,653 participants) was provided with a wearable GPS device to collect the speed and location of an individual during an assigned study period. People participating in the wearable add-on part of the study were chosen because their travel diaries reported use of public transit in day-to-day travel. Each GPS participant was grouped into either the spring phase (March to May 2011) or the fall phase (July to September 2011), and data were recorded for a maximum of seven days for vehicle units and three days for wearable units.

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National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Publication Date:: Thu Jan 22 00:00:00 UTC 2026

DOE Contract Number:: AC05-76RL01830

Research Org.:: National Renewable Energy Laboratory; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Idaho National Laboratory

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Transportation Office. Vehicle Technologies Office (EE-3V)

Subject:: 1Hz data; 32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; attitudes and preferences; drive cycles; light-duty vehicles; micromobility; public transit; regional household survey; smartphone; transit survey; travel behavior; travel modes; vehicle GPS; wearable GPS

OSTI Identifier:: 1924685

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.15483/1924685

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  abstractNote = {The 2011 Regional Travel Survey collected trip data from households across 20 counties in and around Atlanta, Georgia, to improve regional travel demand forecasts. The survey was conducted by PTV NuStats, GeoStats, and PG Americas Inc. on behalf of the Atlanta Regional Commission. The goal was to collect trip data from a minimum of 10,000 households with a subsample of 1,000 households providing global positioning system (GPS) data. The GPS add-on consisted of two sample groups. The first sample group was provided with GPS devices to install in their personal vehicles (797 vehicles) to collect the speed and location of a vehicle during an assigned study period. The second sample group (1,653 participants) was provided with a wearable GPS device to collect the speed and location of an individual during an assigned study period. People participating in the wearable add-on part of the study were chosen because their travel diaries reported use of public transit in day-to-day travel. Each GPS participant was grouped into either the spring phase (March to May 2011) or the fall phase (July to September 2011), and data were recorded for a maximum of seven days for vehicle units and three days for wearable units.},

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  year         = {Thu Jan 22 00:00:00 UTC 2026},

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