Fourstep: Travel diary

There are just 2 steps required to participate in our travel survey.

  1. Install the Fourstep app on your smartphone.

  2. Follow a guided instruction to setup the app.

Step 1: Install Fourstep

Please read the entire instruction of this step before proceeding to download the application.

1) Download the Fourstep app to your phone using one of the link below.

Scan to download Fourstep from Apple App Store

Scan to download Fourstep from Google Play Store

Step 2: Follow a guided instruction to setup the app.

Use this link or the button below to get a login token and learn how to use and setup the app.

TL;D(Follow the link)

How does the app work? Fourstep is a smartphone-based travel survey application. It automatically records your trips and let you insert trip details, such as destination purpose and mode of travel. Making your trip data more suitable for transportation planning.

To make sure that your travel diary is complete, please answer all trip confirm surveys on the Fourstep app every day and leave the app running in the background.

emTripLog must always be running in the background, please do not kill the app.

Everyday at 8.30 PM, you will receive a notification to remind you to answer trip confirm surveys. The video below shows how to answer a trip confirm survey.

Upon completion, please go to the ‘Profile’ tab and click on the red document icon next to ‘End Survey’ to fill in a post-experience survey. After that, you may uninstall the application from your smartphone.

Acknowledgement

Fourstep is a fork of e-mission-phone, developed by Dr Kalyanaraman Shankari, see Shankari, K., Bouzaghrane, M. A., Maurer, S. M., Waddell, P., Culler, D. E., & Katz, R. H. (2018). e-mission: An Open-Source, Smartphone Platform for Collecting Human Travel Data: Transportation Research Record. https://doi.org/10.1177/0361198118770167