Tuesday, August 28, 1973
TRANSPORTATION STUDY STARTS NEXT MONTH
A small army of trained interviewers will next month begin a major survey to find out the travelling habits of thousands of people to help in the planning of future transportation requirements up to the
year 1991.
Announcing this today at a luncheon meeting of the Rotary Club Island East, Mr. Pang Hau-chung, acting Senior Engineer of the Public Works Department underlined the importance of the study which, he said, would provide vital information for designing "a comprehensive transport
plan" to meet Hong Kong's requirements.
Ir. Pang said the major factors affecting studies of this type, such as population projections and distributions, planned road construction and mass transit construction programmes, transportation policies and future land-use patterns, would all be taken into consideration.
The information of personal travel would be collected through
four major interview surveys a household interview, a roadside interview,
a hotel interview and a taxi driver interview.
In order to facilitate the analysis and the presentation of the
data collected, the study area had been divided into some 370
traffic zones on the basis of topography, population, land use, transport
facilities and traffic conditions, he said.
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