Welcome to RCITI Travel Survey

There are just 2 steps to complete this travel survey.

  1. Install the emTripLog app on your smartphone.

  2. Use the app up to 4 days.

Watch the visual instruction or follow the written instruction below.

Step 1: Install emTripLog

Please read the entire instruction of this step before proceeding to download the application.

1) Download the emTripLog app to your phone using one of the link below.

Download from App Store

Download from App Store

Download from Google Play

Download from Google Play

2) Once the emTripLog application is installed on your phone, use your smartphone to click on the green button below which will launch emTripLog on your phone.

When ask to ‘Download new UI only update’, select ‘Apply’. From here, follow the instruction given by the app and make sure you allow all necessary permissions for the app to work properly.

 
Or use emTripLog to scan this QR code to join the study

Or use emTripLog to scan this QR code to join the study

Step 2: Use the app for up to 4 days

How does the app work? emTripLog is a smartphone-based travel survey application. It automatically records your trips and let you insert trip details, such as your destination purpose and mode of travel. Making your trip data more suitable for transportation planning.

To make sure that your travel diary is complete, please answer all trip-end surveys on the emTripLog app and leave the app running in the background for 4 days. For example, If you join the study on Monday at 9.00 AM, then the next Friday at 9.00 AM (24 hours x 4 days) is when you may stop using the application.

emTripLog must always be running in the background, please do not kill the app.

emTripLog must always be running in the background, please do not kill the app.

Everyday at 8.30 PM, you will receive a notification to remind you to answer trip-end surveys. The video below shows how to answer a trip-end survey.

Upon completion of your 4-day travel survey, please go to the ‘Profile’ tab on the emTripLog app and click on the red document icon next to ‘End Survey’ to fill in a post-experience survey. After that, you may uninstall the application from your smartphone.

Conditions for receiving the reward

  • You must be invited to participate in this study through our social media campaign.

  • You will be paid $5 AUD for each day you used the travel app, emTripLog, and answered all the questionnaires. Maximum of $20 AUD will be paid for your contribution in this study.

  • You must answer the post-experience survey.

  • You must allow all the necessary permissions for the emTripLog app to be able to record your location. (Updated: 7:50 AM 13th May 2020)

Help desk

Having problems with the app or want to know more about the study and how your data will be handled? Please visit our FAQ page at https://www.taharashidi.com/travelsurveyfaq.

UNSW Ethics approval number: HC180687

Acknowledgement

This study uses the emTripLog application, developed by Dr Shankari Kalyanaraman, which is built on the e-mission framework as presented in Shankari, K., Bouzaghrane, M. A., Maurer, S. M., Waddell, P., Culler, D. E., & Katz, R. H. (2018). e-mission: An Open-Source, Smartphone Platform for Collecting Human Travel Data: Transportation Research Record. https://doi.org/10.1177/0361198118770167