The Metropolitan Travel Survey Archive: A Case Study in Archiving

David Levinson and Ewa Zofka
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Ewa Zofka: Nexus (Networks, Economics, and Urban Systems) Research Group, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota

No 200610, Working Papers from University of Minnesota: Nexus Research Group

Abstract: This paper summarizes research on standards for archiving travel survey data. It then describes some of the efforts at organizing data and developing metadata. The development of metadata standards used for documenting datasets using DDI (Data Documentation Initiative) for DTD (Document Type Definitions) is described. A case, applying these approaches to a US Metropolitan Travel Survey Archive is presented. The Metropolitan Travel Survey Archive, housed at the University of Minnesota, now contains over 60 surveys from almost 30 metropolitan areas. The paper concludes with some recommendations for archiving data.

Keywords: Travel Surveys; Activity Surveys; Archiving (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C80 D13 R40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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Published in Travel Survey Methods. Peter Stopher and Cheryl Stecher (ed.) Elsevier

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