Project Description

As part of an overall project conducted by Sinclair Knight Merz for the Wellington Regional Council to update the existing EMME/2 based strategic transport model, a new Household Travel Survey was conducted for the Wellington region in 2002. The survey was conducted in 2000-3000 households, using a self-completion diary survey incorporating personal delivery and pickup of the survey forms. The survey used GIS-based geocoding of destinations, and incorporated a special memory-jogger diary for high-frequency tripmakers such as commercial vehicle drivers. The survey also used the Most-Recent-Trip technique to obtain information on public transport trips from most respondents (instead of only from that percentage of the population who use public transport on the survey day).