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Tuesday, March 27, 1973
MAJOR TRANSPORTATION STUDIES TO BE UPDATED
Consultants Appointed To Conduct Detailed Surveys
The Government has employed a consulting firm, Messrs. Wilbur Smith
& Associates, to carry out a comprehensive transportation study of Hong Kong
which will update the information contained in previous transportation studies.
It will involve a study of all present transportation facilities,
the projection of future transportation requirements up to 1991 and the design
of a balanced transportation system to best meet these requirements.
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,
will all be taken into consideration.
One of the major tasks of the study will be a comprehensive household
interview survey which will be conducted to provide statistical information on
travel characteristics and use of transportation facilities by the public.
It will be based on an average sample of three per cent which will
result in about 25,000 interviews.
Starting from September 1973, trained interviewers will call on members
of selected households and ask questions on the details of all the journeys
each member of that household made on a particular day.
These will include trip origins and destinations, purpose and time
of trips, and mode of transport used.
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