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Major household travel surveys were conducted in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1965, 1981 and 1990. Planners at San Francisco’s Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) envisioned the 1990 survey as the first wave of a multi-wave household panel survey designed to capture both short and long-term changes in regional travel behavior. Of the 10,900 households who participated in 1990, 88% indicated their willingness to participate in future waves of the survey. A second wave of data collection was planned for 1992 or 1993. But lack of funding delayed Wave 2 data collection until 1996. This raises concerns about attrition effects, and highlights the difficulties associated with developing and maintaining metropolitan panel surveys in an era of shifting priorities.
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Purvis, C.L. (1997). Planning for Panel Surveys in the San Francisco Bay Area. In: Golob, T.F., Kitamura, R., Long, L. (eds) Panels for Transportation Planning. Transportation Research, Economics and Policy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2642-8_7
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