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What is the Travel 5 Regional Travel
Survey?
Why Should my Household
Participate?
Privacy Statement
Frequently Asked
Questions
Check out the Survey Materials
What is the Travel 5 Regional
Travel Survey?
It is a survey of daily travel in Spokane and Kootenai
Counties. Daily travel includes the everyday travel
that people do as they go about their lives, such
as going to and from work, going grocery shopping,
visiting friends, going to the gym, going to the mall
to hang out or shop, viewing basketball games, stopping
for coffee or gas, or even just walking the dog or
jogging around the neighborhood!
Every household in the
survey is assigned a day on which to record their
daily travel. Each household member receives a travel
log – the use of
this log is very important in this survey. People
are asked to record every place they go and every stop
they make for a 24-hour period. If people do not use
the log, they forget to write down places they’ve
visited on their travel day, like quick stops to grab
some food or cash from an ATM, or dropping off a friend.
The survey results will
provide a reliable picture of the actual travel patterns
of all types of people in the region – information
that will be used to make planning and funding decisions
about jogging paths, sidewalks, bike routes, roads,
transit, and other transportation infrastructure.
The local sponsors of the survey
are the Spokane
Regional Transportation Council (SRTC) and the Kootenai
Metropolitan Planning Organization (KMPO). Both
of these agencies are responsible for tranportation
planning in their respective county. For more information,
contact Ed Hayes, SRTC, by phone at (509) 343-6370
or by email ehayes@srtc.org.
The survey is being conducted
by NuStats and its survey data collection center,
DataSource, nationally recognized for their travel
survey practice. For more information, contact Ramon
Dickerson at NuStats, phone (toll-free) at 1-866-687-8287
or email rdickerson@nustats.com.
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Why Should my Household Participate?
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5 Reasons to Participate:
1. Transportation is important
to our community.
2. Everybody needs transportation
access to perform daily activities.
3. Sound transportation planning
requires reliable information.
4. Making the right transportation
improvements is extremely important to the health of
our local economy.
5. Your participation will provide
a solid foundation for this region's transportation
future.
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Privacy Statement
The entire Travel 5
Regional Travel Survey team is totally committed
to balancing the need for statistical information
with a respect for individual privacy. Confidentiality
is critical to the success of our study. Any information
obtained in the course of this survey will be held
in the strictest of confidence. We want you to feel
secure in providing candid responses to our questions.
Your responses will only be used to develop overall
statistics about transportation behavior of citizens
that live Spokane and Kootenai Counties. So, your
name and other identifying information will be stored
separately from the data files containing your responses.
Your decision to participate is voluntary and you
may decline to answer any question.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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