Travel patterns of over 30,000 households would be ascertained during the sampled field surveys being taken up as part of the Comprehensive Transportation Study (CTS) in city and parts of surrounding districts.
The Home Interview Survey (HIS) which started two days ago will cover areas under Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, Secunderabad Cantonment Board, villages within HADA and others within Hyderabad Metropolitan Area that include portions of Medak, Nalgonda and Mahabubnagar district.
The CTS has been taken up by LEA Associates South Asia for Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) to arrive at short, medium and long term transportation plans. HIS of the select households is one of the important components of it and field investigators will visit household to conduct interviews.
It aims at obtaining travel characteristics of all members of the household by various modes of transportation on a full normal working day. Considerable amount of data is expected to be generated on different aspects such as family structure, socio-economic characteristics, location of work/study places and information of travel attributes by all trips made on that day. The data then is to be employed for analysing existing travel patterns, behaviour and help in calibration of travel demand models.
The HMDA has appealed to residents of the Hyderabad Metropolitan Area to extend necessary cooperation to field investigators and facilitate the proper conduct of the interviews for gathering necessary information.
Survey aims at obtaining travel characteristics of members of the household by various modes of transportation
