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Survey of Practice
Pages 9-10

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... /mail-back surveys – Vehicle intercept – Telephone call-in [i.e., call-out] /call-back – Personal interviews – Vehicle tracking – License plate match – Administrative data – Focus and stakeholder groups/Delphi techniques – Survey sampling issues• Regional and corridor versus statewide survey issues• Design of surveys at different levels to enable data • integration Cost of surveys and data collection• Proprietary and restricted-use information issues• Guidelines used by agencies in formulating freight • transportation surveys to meet specific data needs Gaps in knowledge and research needs, including for • guidelines.
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... Appendix B lists the organizations that responded to the survey. AUDIENCES This synthesis is intended to serve as a resource primarily to state DOTs and MPOs that have some or all of the following freight data collection activities: Freight transportation data are required to provide • input for transportation operations and transportation planning and investment decisions.
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  • national agencies
  • freight survey
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  • collection initiatives
  • select national
  • data survey
  • transportation modes
  • chapter documents

  • portation surveys
  • data collection
  • state dot
  • transportation surveys


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