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APPENDIX B
Initial Web Survey--Questionnaire
and Results
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Improving Access to Transportation Information - Request for Input
1. Which of the following best describes your organization:
Response Response
Percent Count
US DOT 9.3% 14
State DOT 69.3% 104
City or County Transportation
0.7% 1
Agency
Local or Regional Planning Agency 0.7% 1
Transportation Service Provider 0.7% 1
Academic Institution 11.3% 17
Consulting/Engineering Firm 2.0% 3
Professional Association 1.3% 2
Other (please specify) 4.7% 7
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2. Which of the following best describes you:
Response Response
Percent Count
Librarian 18.0% 27
Engineer 22.7% 34
Planner 6.0% 9
Manager/Executive 38.7% 58
Other (please specify) 14.7% 22
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3. What are the primary information sources that you use to help your customers keep up with the latest developments in their
area(s) of expertise, or want to know how others have approached a problem or topic area?
Response Response
Percent Count
Source 1 100.0% 26
Source 2 96.2% 25
Source 3 88.5% 23
Source 4 61.5% 16
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4. When your customers are looking for transportation-related data sets (national, state, or local), what sources do you most
frequently use?
Response Response
Percent Count
Source 1 100.0% 22
Source 2 81.8% 18
Source 3 81.8% 18
Source 4 63.6% 14
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5. What kinds of transportation-related information do your customers seek that you find most difficult or time consuming to
provide? Please be specific.
Response
Count
23
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6. How do you keep up with the latest developments in your area(s) of expertise, or find out how others have approached a
problem or topic area? (Please check all sources that you use regularly.)
Response Response
Percent Count
Meetings and Conferences 92.6% 113
Discussions with colleagues 91.8% 112
Internet - General Search Engines
82.0% 100
(like Google or Yahoo)
Internet - Specific Web Sites 70.5% 86
Print magazines/journals 73.8% 90
Online magazines/journals 45.1% 55
Blogs/wikis/email discussion lists 19.7% 24
Email newsletters or bulletins 70.5% 86
RSS feeds on my home page 1.6% 2
Local library catalog 14.8% 18
Library staff 31.2% 38
TRIS online 36.9% 45
TLCat 5.7% 7
WorldCat 5.7% 7
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7. When you are looking for transportation-related data sets (national, state, or local), what sources do you most frequently
use?
Response Response
Percent Count
Source 1 100.0% 101
Source 2 88.1% 89
Source 3 71.3% 72
Source 4 41.6% 42
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8. If you had a full time personal assistant whose job was to provide you with the information you need to be effective, name
three tasks you would have given them in the last month.
Response Response
Percent Count
Task 1 100.0% 87
Task 2 94.3% 82
Task 3 80.5% 70
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9. You have just been awarded a $10,000,000 grant to improve the ability of transportation researchers and practitioners to find
the information they need when they need it. How would you prioritize the following candidates for use of these funds?
Rating Response
High Medium Low Don't know
Average Count
Getting agreement on standards for
transportation information sharing - 36.3% (45) 33.9% (42) 25.8% (32) 4.0% (5) 1.98 124
both documents and data
Establishing a national
transportation information archive to
preserve and provide stable access 53.2% (67) 31.7% (40) 13.5% (17) 1.6% (2) 1.63 126
to both print and electronic
documents
Building a better national
45.2% (57) 38.9% (49) 14.3% (18) 1.6% (2) 1.72 126
transportation information web site
Improving transportation-specific
46.4% (58) 34.4% (43) 18.4% (23) 0.8% (1) 1.74 125
search tools
Building a collaboration or social
networking web site for 29.6% (37) 36.0% (45) 32.0% (40) 2.4% (3) 2.07 125
transportation practitioners
Setting up subscription services that
inform practitioners about specific
25.6% (32) 43.2% (54) 28.0% (35) 3.2% (4) 2.09 125
topics of interest on a weekly or
monthly basis
Providing seed funding for
transportation organizations to
21.4% (27) 34.1% (43) 37.3% (47) 7.1% (9) 2.30 126
establish better in-house library
services
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Providing grants to transportation
libraries to allow them to loan and
17.5% (22) 26.2% (33) 51.6% (65) 4.8% (6) 2.44 126
deliver documents to outside
organizations
Digitizing paper documents to
39.7% (50) 31.7% (40) 26.2% (33) 2.4% (3) 1.91 126
enable electronic access
Expanding training for transportation
practitioners on available tools and 37.0% (47) 44.1% (56) 18.1% (23) 0.8% (1) 1.83 127
information sources
Developing a marketing campaign
to build awareness of the need for
28.0% (35) 35.2% (44) 36.0% (45) 0.8% (1) 2.10 125
each organization to commit
resources for information sharing
Establishing a national coordinating
function to improve collaboration
across existing information sharing, 52.4% (65) 31.5% (39) 13.7% (17) 2.4% (3) 1.66 124
technical assistance and knowledge
management efforts
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10. What improvements in transportation information access would be of greatest value to you?
Response
Count
109
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11. Please use the space below to provide any other comments that you would like to see considered in the business plan for
implementing Transportation Knowledge Networks. Thank you for your input!
Response
Count
58
answered question 58
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