ACT HTS - 07 Local Travel (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 Local Travel theme
The local travel theme examines just the trips which are made in a survey participant's local area. This measure can reveal whether local activity centres are appropriate, desirable and accessible, or whether people are having to travel to other regions to meet their travel needs.

While it adds a different perspective to the overall travel picture, it is best used as a simple descriptive measure only. For example, a low proportion of shopping trips in an area may indeed be linked to inadequate retail activities. Alternatively, it may be a secondary outcome of other behaviour (e.g., people shopping near their main workplace).

Notes: 
- travel 'back home' is excluded in this estimate of local trips. Travel back home is, by definition, local. Instead, the focus is on activities made across the day as these are the trips where locations or choices could potentially change.



the tables provided represent a small subset of data available. Only the number and proportion of trips are shown, by time period and 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.
Enclosed data tables shared under a 'CC BY' Creative Commons licence. This enables users to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the creator. The license allows for commercial use.
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Tags: act-household-travel-survey
Organization: ACT Government Open Data