Dear Peter,
TSU and ECI at Oxford University were involved in an ESRC and ECI fellowhip
funded project called Integrated Travel Emissions Profiles. The two year
project looked at measuring/auditing climate change related emissions from
personal travel activity across all transport modes over a year-long period.
The final report has just gone to the ESRC and can be downloaded at
www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/oxontravel under Reports and Publications.
We employed postal as well as web-based questionnaires with the sample taken
randomly (cold call) from Oxfordshire residents. As with other surveys of
this kind, the postal survey was rather resource-consuming (relatively
expensive, data coding etc). As the web-based version was developed in PHP
and MySQL the data submitted by the individual respondents were entered
straight into a relational database, ready for preparation and analysis.
Although closed for input, you can still access the online survey via the
web portal at the above address with guest user name 'oxontravel' and
password 'onthemove'.
Please keep in mind the focus of this survey was cost-effectiveness (e.g.
trade-off between survey length, response rate and cost to administer),
annual travel & emissions and analysis at the individual, household and
local levels. As part of the validation, aggregation to County and Country
levels gave (at least to me) surprisingly good match with national stats.
Hope this helps. Good luck with the review!
Best regards
Christian Brand
Research Fellow
Oxford University Centre for the Environment
Transport Studies Unit and Environmental Change Institute
South Parks Road
Oxford OX1 3QY, UK
T: +44 (0)1865 285177
W (TSU): www.tsu.ox.ac.uk
W (ECI): www.eci.ox.ac.uk
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