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Table 3 Measure Description

From: Active and attitudinal acceptability of reporting own travel data

A pilot study now encourages the participation of users of public transport to voluntarily report their travel activities by use of their own smartphones. The purpose is to evaluate the potential for facilitating and improving public transport based on more precise information about travel patterns.

Participants to the study download a mobile application which they activate at the start of each travel. This application registers the movements of the participants, and the participant can choose to report these registrations to a data base. Both the registrations and the data base are approved by the Norwegian Data Protection Authority.

Among other things, these data can provide the transport operator with information about place specific bottlenecks in the transport system, which facilitates targeted measures for improving public transportation. The individual participants decide themselves what travel data they wish to report, and data cannot be traced back to the participants.