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General => Welcome Forum => Topic started by: frodus on August 02, 2013, 01:01:23 PM

Title: Daily transport survey
Post by: frodus on August 02, 2013, 01:01:23 PM: Thanks for taking the survey. Its over and I'll work on posting results.
Title: Re: Daily transport survey
Post by: 00049 (AKA SopFu) on August 02, 2013, 10:02:14 PM: You may want to clarify the average amount spent to commute. There are lots of ways to calculate this - depreciation on vehicle, maintenance per mile, fuel, insurance, etc. For example, I calculate that my Volvo costs me ~$0.80/mile to drive (not including insurance - it's actually worse than my 1098 was, which ended up just less than $0.60/mile), my SV is somewhere around $0.20/mile (that includes a lot of crash repairs...), and my Brammo is somewhere around $0.04 a mile (not including insurance or any depreciation).

I ended up putting $1 if for both measures since the survey wouldn't take anything less than that. I assumed you only wanted fuel costs. My commute is 35 miles round trip, though.
Title: Re: Daily transport survey
Post by: frodus on August 02, 2013, 10:31:32 PM: Way over thinking it. Its not that complicated. Just do a quick estimate on cost of fuel and bus/train fare to get to work. Cost per mile * miles driven.

Its not for a research study. The info I'm looking for is more like commute distance and non commute distance and where people live and what people drive.
Title: Re: Daily transport survey
Post by: Jeff on August 03, 2013, 10:31:29 AM: Quote from: frodus on August 02, 2013, 10:31:32 PM
Way over thinking it. Its not that complicated. Just do a quick estimate on cost of fuel and bus/train fare to get to work. Cost per mile * miles driven.

Does this include bridge tolls? Riding the Empulse every day costs me however many cents, but if it's total cost of the actual commute we're talking about, that includes $2.50 per day for bridge toll.

(Which by the way, don't even get me started on the fact that an electric motorcycle has to pay the same toll rates as a giant Escalade or whatever.)
Title: Re: Daily transport survey
Post by: frodus on August 03, 2013, 11:30:00 AM: Its part of the cost I guess.... But I'm speaking more vehicle related costs... I'll be more clear if I do another. This is my first one. We'll see how it goes.
Title: Re: Daily transport survey
Post by: frodus on August 03, 2013, 12:07:52 PM: I went and deleted the cost per day questions. No reason to keep them really, the answers were all over the place and It wasn't well explained. I wanted it to be quick and easy, so I kept the other 8 relevant questions.
Title: Daily transport survey
Post by: 00049 (AKA SopFu) on August 03, 2013, 01:24:11 PM: Chicago tolls haven't picked up my empulse yet :D