ACT HTS - 08 Journeys to Work (2022)

This spreadsheet replicates selected data tables from the ACT &amp; Queanbeyan Household Travel Survey dashboard.
Please refer to the attached spreadsheet on this page.

About the Work Journeys theme
Work journeys focus on the specific travel between home and work (in either direction). While not identical to the Census 'journey to work' question, the packaging of the survey data in this theme is conceptually similar.

'Journeys' simplify analysis by fixing the start and end point of travel, and may contain other stops along the way. For example, travel from home, stopping at a gym and a shop before ending at work will be captured as a single 'journey to work'. This is different to the analysis of trips in other themes, which identifies each individual activity location. 



All journeys TO work will start from home and finish at a person's main workplace for the purpose of work.

All journeys FROM work will start at a person's main workplace for the purpose of work, and end up back at home.

Journeys may be multi-modal. The mode used for the longest leg of travel (by distance) is reported as the method of travel. Journey time and distance includes all legs of travel, including any travel to and from a public transport stop. 

Work journeys are only constructed to people's regular place of work. Travel to other locations for the purpose of work (e.g., meetings, conferences, site visits, shopping, etc.) will not be included in this theme.

Journeys 'from' work typically mirror journeys 'to' work. However, small differences are still observed. Data tabs show both directions of travel for the ACT and entire study area regions. Due to the smaller sample size at a sub-regional level, the journeys to and from work are combined for the local government area summaries.


Note that the tables provided represent a small subset of data available. Only the number and proportion of journeys are shown, by household region. Use of the dashboard or raw survey datasets allow more complex descriptions of travel to be developed. 

Source data
The data shown is not a Census of travel, but a large survey of several thousand households from across the ACT and Queanbeyan. As with any survey there will be some variability in the accuracy of the results, and how well they reflect the movement of the entire population. For instance, if the survey were to be completed on another day, or with a different subset of households, the results would be slightly different. 
Interpretations of the data should keep this variability in mind: these are estimates of the broad shape of travel only. Even for the same person, travel behaviour will vary according to many factors: day of week, month of year, season, weather, school holidays, illness, family responsibilities, work from home opportunities, etc. Again, by summarising the travel of many different people, the data provides a view of average weekday patterns.

In interpreting the data, it is worth noting the following points:
-    A zero cell does not necessarily mean the travel is never made, but rather that the survey participants did not make this travel on their particular survey day.
-    Values are rounded, and may not sum to the totals shown.
Trip time periods are assigned using the mid point of travel:
-   AM peak (8am to 9am), PM peak (5pm to 6pm), Interpeak (9am to 5pm), Off-peak (after 6pm)

The survey is described on the Transport Canberra and City Services' website:
[Household Travel Survey homepage]

Cell annotations and notes
Some cells have annotations added to them, as follows:
*    : Statistically significant difference across survey years (at the 95% confidence level). Confidence intervals indicate where the true measure would typically fall if the survey were repeated multiple times (i.e., 95 times out of 100), recognising that each survey iteration may pr

Tags: act-household-travel-survey
Organization: ACT Government Open Data