Itinerum: The open smartphone travel survey platform

• Main Authors: Zachary Patterson, Kyle Fitzsimmons, Stewart Jackson, Takeshi Mukai
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2019-07-01
• Series: SoftwareX
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352711018300980

With the advent of smartphones and their ability to know their own location, there is an enormous potential to collect location data for many purposes, including travel-related research. While the ability to create smartphone travel survey applications is potentially revolutionary, the development of such applications remains sufficiently difficult to be beyond a typical transportation researcher’s ability. Of course, development of an app is only the first challenge associated with using such tools; information also needs to be inferred from collected data. The Itinerum platform was created to overcome the barriers facing the use of smartphones for transportation research. The Itinerum platform is a smartphone travel survey platform that allows researchers to customize the Itinerum app with their own questions and prompts, distribute these surveys, monitor, visualize and increasingly process collected data without a background in programming. With the platform, a customized study can be created in 10 min. Keywords: Smartphones, Travel surveys, Web platform