Latest Results - New Zealand Ongoing Household Travel Survey

The New Zealand Ongoing 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 will be published as they become available:

• in the Transport Monitoring Indicator Framework 
• as a series of fact sheets
• in spreadsheet format

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)

See below under 'Spreadsheets' for the spreadsheet containing the numbers underlying the graphs that appear in How New Zealanders Travel.

Fact Sheets:

Risk on the road (PDF v8.1, 383kb): Risk of being involved or killed or injured in motor vehicle crashes in New Zealand based on crash data from the Crash Analysis System and travel data from the Ongoing New Zealand Household Travel Survey. Includes risk by travel mode, risk by age demographic for drivers, passengers, pedestrians and cyclists, risk by when travelling.

Cycling for transport (PDF v8.1, 277kb): 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.

Walking for transport (PDF v8.1, 340kb): 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.

Driver travel (PDF v7.0, 148kb): 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 1.2 replaces the earlier version. It includes revisions, amendments and the addition of a section on SUV travel.

Comparing Travel Modes (PDF v7.0, 211kb): Comparing travel modes (PDF, 211kb): 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 1.4 replaces the earlier version. It includes revisions and amendments. 

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.

How New Zealanders Travel spreadsheet (MS Excel 97-07, 113kb): This spreadsheet contains the data underlying the graphs (Figures 1 - 23) that appear in How New Zealanders Travel (PDF v7.0, 1.11mb). This publication was released in August 2009 and looks at the travel patterns of New Zealanders and how these have changed over the past 20 years.

Regional Results spreadsheet (MS Excel 97-07, 271KB): This spreadsheet contains regional results from the New Zealand Household Travel Survey 2004-08, including distance travelled, time spent travelling and number of trip legs by mode within local government regions.

Urban Areas spreadsheet (MS Excel 97-07, 51KB): This spreadsheet contains mode share results from the New Zealand Household Travel Survey 2003-07 for five main metropolitan areas (Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Hamilton, Dunedin). The second page contains results from the 1997/98 Household Travel Survey.

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.