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Re: st: question about traveltime
From
Scott Merryman <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: question about traveltime
Date
Thu, 29 Nov 2012 08:12:03 -0600
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 8:53 AM, nola l <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to try "traveltime" ado that was developed by Ozimek and
> Miles. It supposed to calculate the travel time of two points. I used
> the example that were listed in their paper (the stata Journal 2011,
> 11, Number 1, pp.106-119).
>
> I am using Stata12 and the data input as follow:
>
>
> start_lat start_long end_lat end_long mode
> 39.95234 -75.16379 40.60843 -75.49018 1
>
> 39.95234 -75.16379 39.9626 -76.72775 3
>
> the command is : traveltime, start_x (start_lat) start_y(start_long)
> end_x (end_lat) end_y (end_long) mode (mode)
>
>
>
> However I got the results as follow which must be wrong (doesn't match
> the results that Ozimek and Miles listed in their paper):
>
> start_lat start_long end_lat end_long mode days hours
> mins travel~t
> 39.95234 -75.16379 40.60843 -75.49018 1 0 0
> 0 0
>
> 39.95234 -75.16379 39.9626 -76.72775 3 0 0
> 0 0
>
> Did I make any mistake and get those "error" results? Or this command
> doesn't work any more?
>
-traveltime- uses GoogleMaps to calculate the travel time, perhaps the
GoogleMaps interface has changed since the Stata Journal article was
written.
I would recommend you contact the authors directly.
Scott
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