The second international conference on new survey methods in transport was held at Hungerford hill, australia between 12th and 16th september, 1983. The aims of the conference were to provide a focus for discussion of survey methodology, and to establish benchmarks with respect to the state-of-the-art in various facets of transport surveys. The conference evolved around workshops in twelve key areas; sample design, survey needs for modelling, questionnaire design and piloting, perceptual studies, diary surveys, longitudinal studies, interactive survey methods, freight surveys, traffic surveys, total design concepts, response errors and data correction, and coding and computing. A number of plenary keynote papers were also presented describing the state-of-the-art in cross-sectional, longitudinal and interactive survey methods. Emerging from the conference discussions, six key issues were prominent; the gap between the state-of-the-art, as espoused by researchers, and the state-of-the-practice, as employed by practitioners; the differences in results obtained when employing different survey methods to collect essentially the same data; the emerging use of the telephone for the conduct of interview travel surveys; the interaction between survey methods and demand modelling and the disparate levels of sophistication in the two areas; the role of microcomputers in the design, conduct and analysis of transport surveys; and the need for practitioners to engage in controlled experimentation, so that methodological advances may continue to be made in the field of transport surveys.(a) for abstracts of some of the papers presented at the conference see B 24489 - B 24505 (IRRD 286979-286995).
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