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The household interviews will be based on 25,000 selected
households. Starting next month, interviewers will call on them and ask questions of all the journeys each member of that household made on a particular day. This will include trip origins and destinations, purpose and time of trips, and mode of transport used.
The roadside interviews will be conducted at selected locations
on some major traffic routes. Similar questions will be put to motorists
interviewed as well as questions on parking conditions.
"The information so collected will help the consultants to
understand more about the choice of route by the motorists and the relationship between the travel cost and travel time," Mr. Pang explained.
He continued:
The hotel interview will yield information on
the trips made by the tourists during their stay in Hong Kong, and hence their transport demand, while the taxi interview will reveal the characteristics
of taxi trips made in Hong Kong."
The information collected will be processed by computers.
Ir. Pang said the recommendations arising from the study would cover
all forms of transport road, underground as well as water transport.
"In some cases, if the planned population distribution and land use will impose very difficult traffic and transport problems, then the traffic consultants may recommend early revision of the long term town plan,'
he added.
This is in fact an iterative process which will be performed until
a set of satisfactory results is obtained."
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