Methodology for surveying traffic behavior for the needs of a sustainable urban mobility plan

The methodology for the transport behaviour survey for the needs of the sustainable urban mobility plan aims to update the document Active travel survey methodology from 2014, especially with regard to the needs of creating sustainable urban mobility plans. Transport behaviour surveys represent an important source of information on the mobility of individual population groups. Without data from transport behaviour surveys, transport cannot be effectively planned to meet the needs of the inhabitants of the area of ​​interest. In sustainable urban mobility plans, they are used to evaluate the current state of transport demand, to reveal new demand trends, but also to identify weaknesses in the transport system. The data are also used to construct selected European SUMI indicators or to evaluate the impacts of measures taken in the past. Last but not least, the survey data is an important input for compiling or updating a demand transport model.

The methodology first focuses on the description of the data collected, and then presents the survey preparation process (sample set, collection technology, and survey layout) and the data collection itself in individual steps. Compared to the previous version, it focuses in detail on the processing and control of the obtained data. The methodology builds on Czech and foreign experience and contributes to the international, and at least European, effort to standardize transport behavior surveys, thus making their outputs not only high-quality but also mutually comparable.