Adequate and reliable data is the foundation of sound decision-making. The absence of an efficient person-trip data collection system results to inadequate and unreliable transportation data. The transportation problems we encounter today take root from this constraint. This study attempts to determine the feasibility of one possible option in establishing an efficient person-trip data collection system – that of incorporating person-trip survey into the Philippine Census of Population and Housing (CPH). It also attempts to establish a framework from which strategies needed for the efficient incorporation could be drawn. To evaluate the appropriateness of two survey tools in administering the combined person-trip survey and the CPH instruments, the compatibility of the instruments used in traditional person-trip surveys and the CPH are initially investigated. Likewise, the possible legal implication of the said incorporation is also examined. Furthermore, the study provides some insights as to how the intended incorporation should be undertaken. It bares the need to administer the questionnaire using the PIJ~N as this ensured data quality and is found to be compatible with the method currently employed in conducting the CPH. Likewise, it also reveals that good qualifications of enumerators played an important role in the success of any data gathering activity. Finally, for cost effectiveness, a restructuring and further review of the contents of the questionnaire developed are also deemed necessary.
