4,000 households to provide data to shape our future public transport developments
The National Transport Authority (NTA) will commence work on the National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) for 2024 from this Thursday 12th of September.
The survey is a nationwide study of Ireland’s travel habits which is designed to provide the NTA with essential statistics to assist in the planning, development and implementation of our future public transport network to meet the needs of the population.
The NTA has commissioned Ipsos B&A to conduct the 2024 survey and 4,000 households throughout Ireland will be contacted by phone between mid-September and early December to take part.
This will be the fifth National Household Travel Survey, with the first undertaken in 2012.
Households will be selected using random digit dialling of mobile and landline phone numbers. Selected households will be contacted by representatives from Ipsos B&A. They will be asked to complete a household questionnaire and a travel diary which they will return by post.
Questions will cover topics including the number of trips taken, the trip origin and destination and the mode of transport used.
Anne Graham, CEO of the NTA said: “The data will give us an insight into the latest travel habits of people in towns and townlands across the country and we can use that to inform, plan and implement improved public transport services and infrastructure for our people into the future.
“The survey is carried out annually and is supported by the Government’s National Sustainable Mobility Policy and the Climate Action Plan 2024. If you are contacted by Ipsos B&A on our behalf, I would encourage you to take part in the survey and have your say to shape the future of Ireland’s public transport network”.
Damian Loscher of Ipsos B&A said: “We are delighted to once again partner with the NTA to conduct the National Household Travel survey for 2024. The data is hugely important to the NTA, and the public has always responded very positively to being invited to take part in this significant research project.
Ipsos B&A’s staff are highly trained in data collection and all data provided is anonymised prior to analysis, in keeping with best practice within the survey research industry.”