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Palo Alto, CA -- The Transportation Division of the City of Palo Alto needs volunteers to survey a representative sample of city residents by telephone during November. Palo Altans interested in volunteering to conduct the telephone research questionnaire should contact Chief Transportation Official Joseph Kott (joseph.kott@cityofpaloalto.org or telephone 329-2520). Volunteers will be asked to stipulate which time block or blocks (considering a day and associated time block as a "shift") they would be interested in staffing. Teams of eight volunteers are being sought for each "shift" (or time block). The following days and times have been scheduled for telephone survey administration:
Depending on response rate, the following time blocks may also require staffing:
The phone survey begins the second phase of a study of Traffic Sensitivity of Residential Streets. In the first phase residents helped develop a questionnaire on street "livability" from a traffic/transportation perspective. This second phase comprises administration of the survey to a random sample of Palo Alto residents, compilation and evaluation of survey results, and development of a Residential Streets Traffic Sensitivity Index for Palo Alto. Transportation Division staff and volunteers will be working with Professor Katherine Kao Cushing of the Department of Environmental Studies at San Jose State University, and students from both San Jose State and Stanford's Program on Urban Studies. A Residential Streets Traffic Sensitivity Index could provide insight on the effect of increased traffic in residential areas. UC Berkeley Professor Donald Appleyard did the seminal research on this topic more than twenty years ago in San Francisco. The Palo Alto research is likely to be of national importance since little has been done on this topic since then. ### |
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