Collection of passenger travel data in Sub-Saharan African cities: Towards improving survey instruments and procedures

Collection of passenger travel data in Sub-Saharan African cities: Towards improving survey instruments and procedures

[SHS:ECO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Economy and finances

African cities

Passenger travel surveys

Household surveys

Methods

This paper compares experiences in the application of different approaches to passenger travel data collection in francophone and anglophone cities of West, Central and Southern Africa. Its aim is to identify possible improvements through which common problems might be addressed. The paper draws from the available French and English literature on survey methods applied in Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as from the authors' experiences in designing and administering surveys in this context. Problems are discussed in terms of survey design and administration. Recommendations to address these problems relate to survey preparation, comparative instrument and cognitive testing, hierarchical multi-modal methods, interviewer selection and training methods, and survey administration and monitoring.

Behrens, Roger

Diaz Olvera, Lourdes

Plat, Didier

Pochet, Pascal

Transport Policy

ISSN:0967-070X

Transport Policy

Transport Policy

2006

ENG

article in peer-reviewed journal

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00068328

DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2005.09.003

PUBLICNRS: 498690

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/06/83/28/PDF/TP2006_Methodo.pdf

Oxford

United Kingdom