Using an Establishment-based Freight Survey (EBFS) implemented in Lisbon, Portugal, as a departure point, we review this specific method of urban freight operations data collection.
BHW, RH, VC, MN were involved with field operations, data collection, cleaning, and database management.
All staff and contractors who participated in the field operations, data collection, and data management, in addition to members of the SAB, were required to sign confidentiality agreements that stipulated the procedures that would be followed to protect the data and the staff member's agreement to protect the data from release.
As part of the operations quality control process, data collection supervisors are required to make random visits to households that had been visited by data collectors, in some cases to verify the data and in others just to check that there had indeed been a visit by a SEACO data collector.
These systems were developed to support military tactical and strategic operation by data collection, processing, analysis, and distribution.
In addition, countries already disposing of radioactive wastes in near-surface facilities have practical schemes in operation for data collection, archiving and preservation.
The authors are grateful to Dr. Ingemar Haggstrom (EISCAT) for his great help in the data analysis software development and usage, and thank the Meridian Project of China for their funding in the radar operation and data collection.
A computer interfaced to the chambers was used for equipment operation and data collection.
MCK carried out operation and data collection.
System operation and data collection were controlled using Karat 5.0 software supplied by Beckman Coulter Instruments.
