2019 Kansas City Regional Household Travel Survey

The 2019 Kansas City Regional Household Travel Survey collected 24-hour socio-demographic data of household travel behavior during weekdays in the spring of 2018 in the Kansas City region—including Johnson, Leavenworth, Miami, and Wyandotte counties in Kansas and Cass, Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties in Missouri.

Data Collection Agency

Westat conducted the study on behalf of the Mid-America Regional Council.

Methodology

The focus of the survey was to collect travel-behavior data from 4,000 households in the region encompassing Mid-America Regional Council’s travel-demand model domain. A mixed-mode survey, it provided web and telephone options for the recruitment survey and web, telephone, and smartphone app options for the retrieval or travel survey. The app option served to replace paper logs and help assess trip under-reporting from the self-reported component of the survey.

Survey Records

Survey records include a total of 8,361 participants.

Transportation Data

In total, 3,827 households participated in the study, with 558 households using the smartphone app and 511 completing the retrieval portion of the survey. All told, data were collected for 30,421 trips.

Transportation data are available as zipped files. Download Winzip.

For the study's latitude and longitude data, learn how to access the spatial data.

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