Sydney Household Travel Survey

This survey is designed to capture the travel behaviour of people who reside in the Sydney greater metropolitan area. The data is essential to gain a complete picture of all trip making and how travel patterns change over time. This information is needed to plan for the future travel needs of both established and developing areas. The data is used widely across the transport portfolio, by other NSW Government departments, federal departments, local councils, universities and the private sector for monitoring trends in travel, estimating patronage demand for infrastructure projects, strategic planning, policy development and local transport studies.

General information on data set

Title	Sydney Household Travel Survey (HTS)
Website for data set	http://www.bts.nsw.gov.au/hts
Data Classification	Mobility -/ Traffic Behaviour > Modal Split Mobility -/ Traffic Behaviour > Trip Purpose Mobility -/ Traffic Behaviour > Time Use Mobility -/ Traffic Behaviour > Activity Areas/ Commuter Relations Transport Modes > motorised > Road Transport Modes > motorised > Rail Transport Modes > non motorised > Bicycle Transport Modes > multimodal/ intermodal/ combined Transport Purpose Passenger Transport > Individual Transport > motorised Passenger Transport > Public Transport Traffic Participants/ Target Groups > Individuals Geographical Data > Demography Surveys with Methodological Focus > Collection -/ Measurement Method Surveys with Methodological Focus > Sampling

Temporal and spatial information

Time period of data collection	June 1997 - June 2012
Country	outside of Europe (Australia)
Federal state	New South Wales,
Region, City, Municipality	Sydney Greater Metropolitan Area,
Georeference available	Yes

Investigation and data collection methodology

Data set variables	Population, Total Travel, Vehicles in household, Bicycles in household, Distance, Travel time, Purpose of travel, Mode of travel, Mode share
Investigation design	other (A Rolling Sample Survey (HTS is a continuous survey which take place throughout the year and over a period of 15 years at the moment).)
Frequency of data collection	continuously
Data collection method	Survey
Data collection tool	Interview
Analysis unit	Person, Household, Vehicle, Trip
Population	Occupied private dwellings within the Sydney greater metropolitan srea, including Sydney statistical division, Illawarra statistical division and Newcastle statistical sub division.
Sample size	The total sample size in the HTS each year is around 5,000 households, where between 3,000 and 3,500 households participate successfully. (Households are randomly selected and each dwellings is randomly allocated a different travel day from a randomly selected week in the year. All weeks in the year are covered annually)
Representativeness	Yes

Access to data set

Collected by	Hunter Valley Research Foundation, Australia
Client	Bureau of Transport Statistics, Transport for NSW, Australia
Contact for data set	Ms Yun Zhang
Data format(s)	Microsoft Excel
Size of data set	1 MB < 10 MB

Deposit Information

Depositing User	Yun Zhang
Date Deposited	19 Jun 2012 11:56
Last Modified	30 Sep 2020 08:33
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