Citation

King GF, Lunenfeld H. Transp. Res. Rec. 1974; 503: 25-37.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1974, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences USA, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

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Abstract

A comprehensive questionnaire dealing with all aspects of urban guidance was prepared, field-tested, and distributed nationwide, and 727 usable returns were received. Portions of the questionnaire dealing with trip plan preparation and trip plan execution are analyzed in this paper. Analyses of the returned questionnaire were made separately in terms of "stranger" and "local stranger" trips. Although there was a significant difference in the proportion of each class of respondent insofar as the preparation of a written trip plan is concerned, differences in the relative importance of perceived information needs and problems were less than expected. Almost half of all respondents reported feeling lost at some state of their most recent trip. Of these, about half were actually lost. Rank ordering of problem types showed that most of those ranking high dealt with difficulties in arterial navigation. Maps were found to be the most important element used in trip plan preparation; map availability and map usability were correspondingly found to rank very high as problem types for stranger trips. Route numbers and street names and numbers were found to rank first or second among needed information types for all classes of respondents.

Language: en