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Travel Diaries
Participants record every journey they take over a set period — where, when, how, and how the journey felt.
Urban Mobility
When It's Useful
When the question is about lived experience over time rather than a single snapshot — how routine, fatigue and uncertainty accumulate across a week of journeys.
STRENGTHS
- Captures journeys as they are actually experienced, not recalled after the fact.
- Reveals patterns across a week that a single interview would miss.
- Works well alongside GPS traces for cross-checking.
LIMITATIONS
- Participation drops off after the first few days.
- Depends on participants remembering to log a journey in the moment.
- Small samples relative to administrative transport data.
Variables Typically Captured
journey start/end timemode of transportperceived difficultycostwaiting timepurpose of trip
Process
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Question
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Sample
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Daily logging
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Coding
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Interpretation