The Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) has partnered with our research team at UC Davis to investigate the temporary and longer-lasting impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on individual mobility and to understand how various policies may affect this new “normal” in terms of modified travel behavior and resulting impacts on equity and the environment. 
 
As part of this research effort, we have recruited over 3,000 participants in the SCAG region, which covers Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura Counties in Fall 2020.  We are expecting to recruit a similar number of new respondents in the ongoing data collection in the region. Survey respondents will primarily be recruited through an online opinion panel. However, to help administer the survey and ensure that we obtain a sample that reflects the diversity of the target population, we are also recruiting respondents through a random mailing-in of surveys and a convenience sample administered by community-based partner organizations and various other channels. This combination of recruitment methods provides our research team with both online and paper-based survey questionnaires to reach a diverse set of potential participants in the region. 

If you live in the SCAG region, and are interested in participating in our survey, please click on the link. The survey should take approximately 25 minutes to complete, and as a token of appreciation for your time, upon completing the survey you may enter yourself into a drawing for a chance to win one out of ten $100 gift cards or one out of 500 $10 gift cards redeemable on Amazon, Starbucks, Walmart, or Target. To be eligible to participate in the survey, respondents must be at least 18 years of age. 

This is the second round of data collection, following an initial survey distributed in Fall 2020. This survey is intended to broaden our shared understanding of how travel behaviors and attitudes have changed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and to inform region-wide efforts to plan for better communities in a post-COVID-19 world.