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- 1 2 Levinson, David (Summer 2007). "Metropolitan Travel Survey Archive" (PDF). TMIP Connection: The Traffic Model Improvement Program Newsletter. FHWA-HEP-07-032. College Station, Texas: Texas Transportation Institute and United States Department of Transportation: 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 16, 2009. Retrieved May 1, 2009. Archived from the original on May 1, 2009. "Properly archiving the travel surveys at a central location (with remote backups) safeguards the data against loss to calamities such as fires, earthquakes, floods, and terrorist attacks that have befallen earlier surveys."
- ↑ Levinson, David; Zofka, Ewa (2006). "The Metropolitan Travel Survey Archive: A Case Study in Archiving". In Stopher, Peter; Stecher, Cheryl (eds.). Travel Survey Methods (Google books). Elsevier and Emerald Group Publishing. pp. 223–238. ISBN 978-0-08-044662-2 . Retrieved May 1, 2009.
A related solution for archiving problems would be to create an International Travel Survey Archive (ITSA)
- ↑ Metropolitan Travel Survey Archive Available as Off-Site Archive in Urban Transportation Monitor Volume 19, No. 20, pp.1,9 Nov. 11, 2005 Archived 2008-12-23 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Metropolitan Travel Survey Archive". Washington, DC: United States Department of Transportation. Archived from the original on May 2, 2009. Retrieved May 1, 2009.
The United States Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics has funded a project at the University of Minnesota to develop a Metropolitan Travel Survey Archive to store, preserve, and make publicly available, via the internet, travel surveys conducted by metropolitan areas, states and localities.