Commuting Survey

commutingflow

Hi Everyone.

My name is Dan and i'm currently conducting a survey on commuting to work and was wondering whether anyone would be willing to take part. It takes roughly 10 mins, so if you have time to spare i'd appreciate any participants.

It's looking at bus, train and car commuting.

Also i'm viewing whether psychological flow occurs on the commute.

weblink: http://tinyurl.com/36dezt

More information about the survey is below.

Thanks - Dan

Information for Participants

My name is Daniel Phipps and I am a third year psychology student from Nottingham Trent University. As part of my degree I am required to conduct a psychology research study which is an online questionnaire.

I am conducting a questionnaire study about the working persons’ daily commute to work and the types of activities people take part in on their commute, focussing on psychological flow. I am only looking at the journey to work you experienced today. I am looking at 3 types of transport in the commute; car, bus and train only. There will be questions on the conditions of the commute to work, the types of activities people take part in on their commute, feelings on how the commute went and whether people go into a psychological flow state on their commute.

Psychological flow is a mental state in which the person is fully immersed in what they are doing, characterized by a feeling of focused energy and success in the process of the activity.

All information given will be completely anonymous, therefore no contact details and names will be taken from yourself to protect your anonymity. You will need to provide a unique identifier incase you wish to withdraw your data at a later stage.

All information given will be strictly confidential. My Supervisor and I will be the only people with access to the raw data given. The data will be secured by ensuring it will not be online, and it will be password protected. I will be analysing the data given through statistical methods and using the output of this process in my dissertation.

Participation is completely voluntary.

Participants must be 18 years old or over, and are currently employed.

If you wish to proceed in taking part in this study please click on the questionnaire link. By clicking on the link you will open a web browser to the questionnaire. At this point you’ll be asked to give your consent in taking part in the questionnaire, that you are 18 years old or over and are currently in employment. Afterwards you will need to fill in the questions on the questionnaire by typing in answers and selecting the appropriate choices related to you. It will be helpful for the study if you answer every question, but you have to right to omit any question if you wish. The study should take approximately 20-30 minutes to complete.

Web link: http://tinyurl.com/36dezt
You have the right to withdraw the information you have given at any point, without a given reason. If you do this your given information will be destroyed and not used in the study. If you wish to withdraw your data, I can be contacted by email on N0102558@ntu.ac.uk. In your email you must quote the unique identifier code, then I’ll be able to track down your data and delete it as requested.

If you have any comments regarding this study, then please do not hesitate to contact myself on the above email address. Or you can contact the supervisor of this research using the details below.

Glenn Williams
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Nottingham Trent University
Burton Street
Nottingham
NG1 4BU

Tel: 0115 848 5980
Email: glenn.williams@ntu.ac.uk


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Web link: http://tinyurl.com/36dezt

robfitz

Hello Dan. Is this survey relevant to you if it's filled out my people resident in Ireland?

I'd also be interested in the reasons why pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists are excluded.

commutingflow

Hi Robfitz,

No it's perfectly fine for anyone from anywhere to fill out my survey, just as long as they currently employed.

As much as i would have liked to have included those forms of commuting, i haven't because getting a large enough pool of people would have been an issue.

Maybe in a follow study, i'd be able to include these commuting modes as well.

Dan

commutingflow

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commutingflow

Hi,

Just to say i'm closing the survey next week. So please if anyone will do take part! I need as many people as possible.

Thanks,

Dan

Hotblack Desiato

commutingflow wrote: »

As much as i would have liked to have included those forms of commuting, i haven't because getting a large enough pool of people would have been an issue.

That's a circular argument. The exact same one that less clueful website admins used to frequently employ. "We only cater for Internet Explorer because 99% of visitors to our site use it." Well, duh, of course they do, because it's broken if they try to use something else. You're never going to get a sufficiently large pool of 'alternative commuters' if you exclude them.

Cantab.

ninja900 wrote: »

That's a circular argument. The exact same one that less clueful website admins used to frequently employ. "We only cater for Internet Explorer because 99% of visitors to our site use it." Well, duh, of course they do, because it's broken if they try to use something else. You're never going to get a sufficiently large pool of 'alternative commuters' if you exclude them.

I wouldn't be so quick to start knocking the methodology. You don't know how the OP has designed his experiment and what he is testing for. It's premature and ignorant to be jumping to quick conclusions and drawing irrelevant parallels to internet browsers.

Hotblack Desiato

I'm not ignorant Cantab, just a motorcycle commuter who is sick of being ignored by the powers that be. For example, Dublin City Council have just announced that they will commence motorcycle clamping, but provide almost no legal motorcycle parking. Dismiss my argument if you like, but name-calling only reflects badly on you.

Victor

ninja900 wrote: »

I'm not ignorant Cantab, just a motorcycle commuter who is sick of being ignored by the powers that be. For example, Dublin City Council have just announced that they will commence motorcycle clamping, but provide almost no legal motorcycle parking. Dismiss my argument if you like, but name-calling only reflects badly on you.

This is being targetted at shops who leave their stock on the footpath.