ACT HTS - 09 Journeys to Education (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 Education Journeys theme
Education journeys focus on the specific travel between home and study. This may be in either direction.

'Journeys' make analysis simpler 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 university will be captured as a single journey to education. This is different to the analysis of trips in other themes, which identify each activity location individually across the day.



All journeys TO education will start from home and finish at a place of education for the purpose of studying.

All journeys FROM education will start at a place of education, for the purpose of studying, 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.


Notes: 
* Education journeys are only constructed for people with a regular studying activity. Someone who does not study, but travels to an educational activity (e.g., training, conference or short course) will not be included in this theme. 
* Education journeys are only constructed to regular educational facilities. Travel to other places for education (e.g., a school camp) are excluded from this theme.
*  Journeys over 100km in length are removed. These typically relate to camp or excursion travel.

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.

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 produce slightly different outcomes.
~    : Unreliable estimate (small sample or wide confidence interval)

Additional information
Analysis by Sift Research, March 2025.
Contact research@sift.group for further information.

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