Panel Study of Emerging Transportation Technologies and Trends in California: Phase 2 Findings

The increase in online shopping during COVID‐19: Who is responsible, will it last, and what does it mean for cities?

“…The fall 2020 survey also included questions related to respondents' previous fall 2019 behaviors for comparison purposes. Three distinct approaches were employed to recruit participants in the spring 2020 COVID-19 Mobility Study: (1) we re-contacted respondents from previous research projects that our research team had conducted in 2018, 2019, and 2020 (Circella et al, 2021) that had agreed to participate in future mobility studies and had provided researchers the means to directly contact them again (N = 1,274); (2) we used a quota sampling approach to recruit participants via an online opinion panel vendor (N = 8,353) and targeted specific groups of respondents based on their sociodemographic characteristics, at a city-level basis. Specifically, we targeted respondents based on age, gender, race, ethnicity, presence of children, household income, and student/employment status; and (3) to bolster our sample size, we further used a convenience sample collected via professional listservs and social media (N = 1,266).…”