RFP/RFQ Description
It is the intention of WAMPO to hire a consultant to conduct a regional household travel survey and prepare the results for integration into the regional Travel Demand Model. Properly collected, weighted, and analyzed Household Travel Survey (HTS) data are essential to the performance of accurate updates to WAMPO’s four-step, TransCAD-based Travel Demand Model, as well as potentially useful and informative in various other contexts. The last WAMPO HTS was completed in 2011; since typical travel behaviors in a region change over time (e.g., more people working from home, more people having their retail purchases delivered to them instead of going to stores, the introduction of new modes of transportation, demographic shifts within the region), relatively recent HTS data are necessary in order to have a reliable TDM and accurately represent and forecast how people use the transportation system. Additionally, over time, survey instruments have become more sophisticated and able to provide more detailed data (e.g., transitioning from asking respondents to remember and write down all the details of their trips to having respondents install smartphone applications that use GPS to track their trips over the course of one or more days) that can be used to produce corresponding enhancements to the sophistication of a region’s TDM. Typically, an MPO will conduct a Household Travel Survey once every ten years; WAMPO has waited more than ten years since its last HTS to conduct a new one so that the results will not be affected by temporary changes in travel behavior stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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