This spreadsheet replicates selected data tables from the ACT & Queanbeyan Household Travel Survey dashboard.
Please refer to the attached spreadsheet on this page.
About the Origins and Destinations of Travel theme
This theme studies the origins and destinations of trips (regardless of where people live).
Trips back home are not always included in origin-destination tables and local area catchment analyses. This is to highlight the places that people travel to for specific activities (rather than just 'returning home' - a fixed destination with no choice). Data with and without the home trips included are provided in two separate tabs.
Geographical notes:
- In this theme, areas not directly surveyed are still shown. This reflects a change in emphasis compared to other dashboard tables, from where people live to where people travel. For example, while no households from Canberra East were sampled as part of the survey, travel to and from this area was still made by other participants.
- Travel to and from 'outside the study area' is shown as a potential location. Again, this only relates to survey participants and not the travel of external visitors to the study area.
- Plane travel into or out of the study area is excluded. From a household travel perspective, plane travel accounts for under half a percentage point of all daily trips.
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)
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)
The survey is described on the Transport Canberra and City Services' website:
[Household Travel Survey homepage]
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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