Project Description

TUTI (in association with I-view Pty Ltd) has been appointed by the Victorian Department of Infrastructure to design and conduct the Victorian Integrated Survey of Travel and Activity (VISTA) in 2007-08. The survey will cover the Melbourne metropolitan area, plus the regional city areas of Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo, Shepparton and the Latrobe Valley. The survey will be conducted for 12 months from May 2007 through May 2008, and will obtain responses from a total of 16,250 complete households. A Pilot Survey will be conducted in April in 2007

The format of the survey will be very similar to that adopted for recent travel surveys conducted by TUTI and I-view in Australia and New Zealand, and will be based on the use of a self-completion activity/travel diary for 1 day, supported by personal delivery and pickup of the questionnaires. The VISTA survey will use the Speedit program (Survey Program for Entering and Editing Data Involving Travel) for interactive data entry, geocoding and data editing, and the HotSpot program (Household Travel Survey Program for Operational Techniques) to control the day to day administration of the survey. Both programs have been developed by TUTI and refined in several surveys over the past few years.

Further details about the survey can be found on the FAQ page for the survey on this website.