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Pilot results prompt DfT to drop plan for GPS-based travel survey

10 January 2012
GPS recorded fewer walk trips
GPS recorded fewer walk trips

 

A plan to use GPS devices to compile the National Travel Survey looks set to be dropped after a trial of the technology produced hugely different results from the traditional diary-based data.

The DfT had seen GPS as a possible way of reducing the burden on respondents, reducing costs, improving data quality and modernising survey methods. It also believed that the devices could provide more accurate information and a much richer picture of active travel behaviour (walking, running and cycling)...

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