Determining strategies to increase response rates in transport surveys of small shop-based businesses

Increasing representation of small business perspectives in policy research would benefit from identifying strategies to increase response rates. Despite the significance of the issue, there is inconsistent reporting amongst small business research about issues such as sampling, recruitment and survey design. Reporting on such issues may help address the under-representation of small business respondents and help reduce wasting research resources on less effective strategies. For policy matters that have the potential to disrupt how small business owners run their business, this is of particular importance. This paper reports on a survey of small businesses about changes to the transport accessibility features of a town centre that have the potential to affect the supply of car parking. Based on a review of the available literature, strategies were adopted to reduce respondent burden and maximise engagement. The paper presents an analysis of recruitment approaches in the first wave of the survey and demonstrates how the refinements to the recruitment approach were successful in achieving an increase in response rate from 40% to 47%.     

What Curriculum for Mobility and Transport Studies? A Critical Exploration

To understand the complex meanings of mobility and to engage in transport planning and management processes, a variety of disciplines, skills, and tools are potentially useful. Universities have a limited amount of time and resources to train future professionals though. This poses a problem: where should the teaching priorities be? By means of a web-survey, this study has asked academics based at a number of universities what the disciplines, skills, and tools that — according to their personal viewpoints — are the most relevant for practitioners in the mobility and transport sector. The respondents generally support curricula that facilitate a holistic, non-specialised, understanding of mobility and transport issues.     

国道345线杂多至查吾拉段多年冻土地质踏勘

本文通过对国道345线杂多-查旦乡-查吾拉段公路沿线多年冻土地质情况的现场踏勘,依据踏勘结果分析,初步估计了该路段沿线多年冻土分布情况及主要特征,为沿线多年冻土勘察设计提供基础依据,并为路线设计提供理论参考。     

环岛交通量获取方法研究

环岛交通量不易观测,尤其是多进口道大型环岛获取各流向交通量存在困难.为此引入双约束重力模型,考虑环岛掉头交通量,根据少量调查数据求解环岛各流向交通量,为获取环岛交通量提供一种简便的方法,结果验证合理可行,对于环岛交通量调查有一定参考价值.     

长江航道地形测量数据采集与预处理工作流程优化

针对长江电子航道图运行条件下对航道地形信息快速更新的需求,梳理长江航道现阶段地形测量的工作流程,分析了制约实现快速测量的主要因素,结合经验提出提高航道地形测量效率的解决方案和主要难点,为深入研究长江航道地形要素信息快速采集与预处理技术、形成配套软硬件系统奠定基础。     

新型变形监测装置的研制

建筑物施工过程中需要通过变形监测获取观测数据,由于施工或运营的缘故,往往没有条件浇筑强制归心观测墩,而用传统测量来架设测量觇标,则人为及外界环境等因素容易使监测数据产生较大误差。介绍一种新型变形监测装置,提高了变形监测的精度,可对建筑物进行安全评估,解决了这一长期困扰工程监测领域的难题。     

温州市大门大桥主塔施工测量技术

介绍大门大桥主桥加密控制网情况,分析大桥主塔的测量定位控制技术、方法及精度,采用相对基准三维极坐标法和相对基准差分三角高程法进行塔柱平面及高程的测量放样,实践表明,其测量精度和放样误差完全满足相关规范的要求。该法方便易行,保证工程施工质量,且加快工程施工进度,对今后海中高塔柱施工建设的测量工作具有一定的借鉴意义。     

CORS技术在油田用地变更调查中的应用

结合大庆市油田用地变更调查实际,阐述CORS技术的发展及应用现状,重点介绍在油田用地变更调查中应用CORS系统的实际经验,分析CORS技术在油田土地管理应用中的特点,并对其测量精度进行评价。     

产教融合背景下高职公共课教学调查与思考——以武汉软件工程职业学院为例

本研究旨在调查在产教融合背景下,高职公共课的教学现状,以便为教改进一步明晰方向。本研究以武汉软件工程职业学院部分学生为研究对象,通过问卷调查了《应用写作》等5门公共课的教学情况。基于数据,对学生学习动机、学生自我认识、教学方法、理想教师和理想教学等做出分析。本研究认为:应从提高师能,公共课程深度定位和深度开发,以行动导向法提升教学效能等三个方面入手进行高职公共课教改。     

An exploratory analysis of joint-activity participation characteristics using the American time use survey

This paper presents a detailed exploratory analysis of joint activity participation characteristics using the American Time Use Survey (ATUS). As a very large nationwide survey that explicitly elicited information on both household and non-household companions for each activity episode, the ATUS is ideally suited for this analysis. Several intuitive and interesting results are obtained. Joint episodes are found to be of longer durations, significantly likely to take place at the residence of other people, and often confined to certain time periods of the weekday. In addition, important differences in these characteristics are also observed based on activity purpose, companion type, and the day of the week. These findings are intended to provide the basis for the justification of detailed collection of joint activity–travel participation information in household activity–travel surveys, and also as a stimulant for further empirical analysis and modeling of joint activity participation behavior.