Deploying traditional and smartphone app survey methods in measuring door-to-door travel satisfaction in eight European cities

This study describes the lessons learned from designing, deploying and analysing the results from different travel satisfaction survey tools which measures the travellers' door-to-door travel satisfaction. The travel satisfaction measurement survey tools tested consisted of two types of smartphone applications (a satellite navigation app and a game app), an on-line survey, a paper-based semi-structured questionnaire and a focus group questionnaire. Each of the measurement tools comprised the same set of basic questions, but in different formats, aimed at exploring the pros and cons of each tool among different groups of travellers. The data collection was carried out at eight different European cities and five FIA motorist networks. 5,275 valid responses were gathered from the survey. Further analysis results show that different survey methods performed better in different sites. The satisfaction that was gathered via main trip leg does not necessarily correspond with overall satisfaction of the door-to-door journey. The results of this study highlight the need for more inclusive, complete, door-to-door, travel survey measurements

The Anatomy of Job Satisfaction and the Role of Contingent Employment Contracts

In this paper I analyse job satisfaction using fixed effect analysis and a multiple equation model. Overall job satisfaction is analysed as an aggregate of satisfaction with several job aspects. I find that overall job satisfaction is mainly determined by satisfaction with job content. All aspect satisfactions are subsequently explained from observed characteristics, with special focus on contingent employment contracts. Satisfaction with job security is the aspect satisfaction with the strongest relation to type of contract. Since this is also the aspect that receives least weight in overall job satisfaction this has little impact on workers' total happiness. More influential is the low satisfaction with job content due to agency work. Overall, temporary agency work leads to the lowest job satisfaction. On-call work and fixed-term work arrangements do not differ from regular work in overall job satisfaction they provide, even though they do lead to highe! r or lower satisfaction with some aspects of the job

Place of residence, choice of transport 2000

Survey on the effects of spatial structure around r. to r.'s choices regarding means of transport. Respondents are obtained from the "Time Budget Survey 1990" sample (Steinmetz Archive Studynr, P1183). Persons who have moved house after 1990 have been interviewed plus a control group of non-movers. Movers: motives to move, choice of new residence / commuter traffic / leisure activities outside the house / detailed description of r.'s house and r.'s house in 1990 (movers) / car parking facilities near r.'s house, idem in 1990 (movers) / also storing of motor bikes, moped bikes and bicycles / use of public transport, distances to railway station, bus stop / shopping behaviour: frequencies, distances, transport / transport of children to school, transport to work, day-time courses, transport regarding leisure activities / detailed description of r.'s residential quarter obtained through observations by interviewers / movers: also observation of former residential quarter (1990) / non-movers: infrastructural and spatial changes in neighbourhood / changes with regard to r.'s house, accommodation since 1990. Background variables: basic characteristics/ residence/ housing situation/ household characteristics/ place of work/ occupation/employment/ income/capital assets/ education/ consumption of durable

Het effect van de woonomgeving op de mobiliteit en vervoerkeuze 2000

Survey on the effects of spatial structure around r. to r.'s choices regarding means of transport. Respondents are obtained from the "Time Budget Survey 1990" sample (Steinmetz Archive Studynr, P1183). Persons who have moved house after 1990 have been interviewed plus a control group of non-movers. Movers: motives to move, choice of new residence / commuter traffic / leisure activities outside the house / detailed description of r.'s house and r.'s house in 1990 (movers) / car parking facilities near r.'s house, idem in 1990 (movers) / also storing of motor bikes, moped bikes and bicycles / use of public transport, distances to railway station, bus stop / shopping behaviour: frequencies, distances, transport / transport of children to school, transport to work, day-time courses, transport regarding leisure activities / detailed description of r.'s residential quarter obtained through observations by interviewers / movers: also observation of former residential quarter (1990) / non-movers: infrastructural and spatial changes in neighbourhood / changes with regard to r.'s house, accommodation since 1990. Background variables: basic characteristics/ residence/ housing situation/ household characteristics/ place of work/ occupation/employment/ income/capital assets/ education/ consumption of durable