Survey on mobility behaviour
Survey from January to December 2018 - results available at the end of 2019
The everyday mobility of the population in Chemnitz is the focus of a household survey launched by the Technical University of Dresden at the beginning of January 2018. The survey is part of the "Mobility in Cities - SrV 2018" research project, which is running simultaneously in more than 120 German cities and municipalities. The project provides important findings and basic data for local and regional transport planning.
The survey comprises 2,000 randomly selected households and is aimed at citizens from all sections of the population. Among other things, it is about whether and with which means of transport they are travelling in everyday life and what distances are covered. As the requirements for mobility can vary greatly from person to person, the survey also asks, for example, about driving licence ownership, accessibility of stops and the time required for daily journeys.
The anonymised evaluation of the collected data provides an up-to-date picture of the traffic development specific to the city or municipality. It is supplemented by a comparison with cities and municipalities of a similar size. The overall nationwide sample comprises more than 150,000 people and also allows cross-city trends to be analysed that need to be taken into account in transport planning. These include, for example, the use of car-sharing services or electric bicycles.
The survey was conducted throughout 2018 and the addresses of the selected households were drawn at random from the population register. These households will receive a letter informing them about the survey and asking them to participate. Participation is voluntary.
The survey is conducted by telephone. Trained interview personnel are available on the telephone to conveniently record the answers. Alternatively, it is possible to answer the questions via online access on the Internet. A telephone hotline and a web chat are also available.
TU Dresden has commissioned the Leipzig-based institute Omnitrend GmbH to conduct the survey. All data will be collected there, anonymised and handed over to TU Dresden for analysis. All those involved in the project guarantee compliance with data protection regulations.
The City of Chemnitz and TU Dresden are asking all selected households to take part in the survey. Each household represents a part of the entire population and is therefore needed for the most realistic projection possible. Only through the active participation of as many citizens as possible can representative data be obtained, which is essential for needs-based transport planning.
Even people who rarely travel are called upon to participate, as the traffic behaviour of the entire resident population is to be recorded.
Background: System of representative transport surveys
The project, conceived as the "System of Representative Transport Surveys" (SrV), was founded at the TU Dresden back in 1972. The regular repetition of this survey at five-year intervals means that findings on traffic development are available over a time horizon of more than 40 years. They show, among other things, that mobility and transport can vary greatly from city to city and community to community. This makes it all the more important to support local transport planning by regularly updating the data basis.
Further information
Further information can be found on the TU Dresden project homepage:
A free information hotline is available for queries on 0800 / 830 1 830.