GPS-supported smartphone app-based integrated travel diary and time-use data collection: challenges and lessons learned

Tabasi, Maliheh; Siripanich, Amarin; Khan, Nazmul Arefin; Auld, Joshua; Rashidi, Taha Hossein

doi:10.1007/s11116-024-10546-w

Title: GPS-supported smartphone app-based integrated travel diary and time-use data collection: challenges and lessons learned

Journal Article · Mon Oct 28 00:00:00 UTC 2024 · Transportation

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-024-10546-w · OSTI ID:2999820

Tabasi, Maliheh ^[1]; Siripanich, Amarin ^[1]; Khan, Nazmul Arefin ^[2]; Auld, Joshua ^[2]; Rashidi, Taha Hossein ^[1]

Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (Australia)
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Travel behaviour and time-use data are two vital data sources for travel demand modelling. Travel behaviour is traditionally collected through household travel surveys, enhanced by using GPS-supported smartphone apps for passive location data collection. However, recruiting individuals willing to install these apps with sustained motivation to continue participation has been a critical challenge. This paper shares insights from a travel and time-use data collection procedure in Chicago and Sydney using the Fourstep app. Social media platforms were utilised as a solution to recruit participants in Chicago, where an international market research company failed to accomplish the task. This paper also discusses the challenges we faced and suggests ways to overcome them, offering valuable guidance to researchers in recruiting participants for smartphone application-based data collection. It also offers an analysis of travel, time-use, and travel-based multitasking behaviours based on the data collected from the Chicago and Sydney samples.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Office of Sustainable Transportation. Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO); USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 2999820

Journal Information:: Transportation, Journal Name: Transportation; ISSN 1572-9435; ISSN 0049-4488

Publisher:: SpringerCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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