RE: st: question about traveltime

[Lance Erickson <lance_erickson@byu.edu>]

Scott is correct that Google's interface has changed. I contacted the authors months ago and shared my solution with them. I believe they have incorporated the changes into their code but from what I can tell they have not updated it with SSC. You should be able to get an update if you email the authors directly. 

I don't have any personal reasons for not sharing my solution although I haven't not gone through a rigorous testing process that I imagine would be desirable for distribution. Also, I'm not exactly sure what the norms are for sharing changes to someone else's code. 

Lance

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Merryman
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 7:12 AM
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: st: question about traveltime

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 8:53 AM, nola l <nola0908@gmail.com> 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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