Latest Results - New Zealand Household Travel Survey

Last updated on 10/11/2011 11:25 a.m. 

The New Zealand Household Travel Survey is an ongoing survey of household travel conducted for the Ministry of Transport. Each year, people in more than 4,600 households throughout New Zealand are invited to participate in the survey by recording all their travel over a two-day period. Each person in the household is then interviewed about their travel and is also asked about their alcohol consumption and other travel-related information.

Results

For results of the survey see:

Fact Sheets

Motorcycling - May 2010 (PDF, 176kb): Motorcycle use on New Zealand roads. Includes information on travel mode share, who motorcycles, motorcycling times and distances, destinations and purposes of cycling, trends by age and type of travel (open road/urban).

Risk: introduction and  mode comparison - October 2011 (PDF, 81kb): Risk of death or injury in motor vehicle crashes in New Zealand based on crash data from the Crash Analysis System and travel data from the New Zealand Household Travel Survey. Includes risk by travel mode and an introduction to the concepts.

Risk: drivers and their passengers - October 2011 (PDF, 255kb): Risk of being involved or death or injury in motor vehicle crashes based on crash date from the Crash Analysis System and travel data from the New Zealand Household Travel Survey. Includes risk by age demographic and gender and time of day for drivers and passengers.

Risk: pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists - October 2011 (PDF, 177kb): Risk of death or injury in motor vehicle crashes in New Zealand based on crash data from the Crash Analysis System and travel data from the New Zealand Household Travel Survey. Includes risk by age demographic and gender for pedestrians and cyclists, risk by open road/urban road for motocyclists.

Public Transport - March 2010 (PDF v7.0, 248kb):  Public transport use in New Zealand as reported in the New Zealand Household Travel Survey. Local bus, train and ferry passenger travel. Includes information on travel mode share, who uses public transport, why and how often.

Cycling for transport - October 2011 (PDF, 167kb): Cycling on New Zealand roads. Includes information on travel mode share, who cycles, cycling times and distances, destinations and purposes of cycling, trends in cycling. Version 3 updates the analysis to 2010.

Walking for transport - August 2011 (PDF, 194kb): Walking on the road/footpath network in New Zealand. Includes information on travel mode share, walking by age, gender, household structure (such as household type, household vehicles), walking destinations and purposes, time spent walking, trends in walking. Version 3 updates the analysis to 2010.

Driver travel - August 2011 (PDF, 196kb): Driver travel in light four-wheeled vehicles (cars, vans, utes and SUVs), including driver demographics, destinations, vehicle types, information about passengers carried, time of day, lifetime driving experience and trends in driver travel. Version 3 updates the analysis to 2010.

Parking - Dec 2009 (PDF v7.0, 321kb): Types of parking locations (on or off road, private or public) for trips in households cars, vans, utes and SUVs. Includes national and regional tables, and parking locations for all stops, overnight parking and for stops of four hours or more.

Comparing Travel Modes - October 2011 (PDF, 234kb): Comparing travel modes: Travel choices (mode share) made by New Zealanders. Includes trends in mode share, travel by different age groups and destination types, travel to school, and travel by urban and rural residents. Version 3 updates the analysis to 2010. 

The Transport Monitoring Indicator Framework includes selected national and regional results, graphs and maps.

Spreadsheets:

The following spreadsheets contain tables on specific areas of interest.

If you do not have Microsoft Excel on your computer, you can download the Excel Viewer from Microsoft for free. Excel Viewer lets you view, print and copy tables downloaded in Excel format. You may use this to export these files to another spreadsheet application.

Regional Travel Results
These spreadsheets contains regional results from the New Zealand Household Travel Survey 2003-10, including distance travelled, time spent travelling and number of trip legs by mode within local government regions. A three-year moving average data series (MS Excel 289kb) is available for all regions. For Auckland, Wellington, Waikato and Christchurch, a two-yearly series (MS Excel, 216kb) is available as well. 

Main Urban Areas spreadsheet - Dec 2009 (MS Excel 97-07, 245 kb): This spreadsheet contains mode share results from the New Zealand Household Travel Survey 2003-09 for five main metropolitan areas (Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Hamilton, Dunedin). Results include include distance travelled, time spent travelling and number of trip legs by mode.

Vehicle Distance per day (MS Excel 97-07, 29kb): This spreadsheet contains daily mean, median and percentile distances travelled by household vehicles, from the New Zealand Household Travel Survey 2003-07.

Publications:

How New Zealanders Travel
This is a one-off publication that looks at the travel patterns of New Zealanders and how these have changed over the past 20 years. Released in August 2009, it is based on the results of three separate Household Travel Surveys carried out since 1988. It also outlines how the risk of crashing has changed over the last two decades.

Over the past 20 years some key trends have emerged. Adults are spending more time driving and school children are spending less time walking or cycling to school. Young drivers and motorcyclists are most likely to be involved in fatal crashes.

Download a copy of How New Zealanders Travel here (PDF v7.0, 1.11mb)

The spreadsheet below contains the data underlying the graphs (Figures 1-23) that appear in How New Zealanders Travel.

How New Zealanders Travel spreadsheet (MS Excel 97-07, 113kb)