The results provide a detailed picture of the “who, where, why, when and how” of trips made by residents of the National Capital Region. In all, 25,374 telephone interviews were completed in Fall 2011, representing 5.0% of all households, which is considered a rich sample.

For more detailed information, check out the 2011 Origin-Destination survey.

The NCR 2009 External Travel Survey was an important follow-up to the household-based 2005 O-D Survey and captured information on trip patterns that were not captured in the 2005 survey, specifically trips that originate in, or are destined to, locations outside of the NCR. The survey was conducted in spring/summer 2009. In all, 17,744 valid surveys were completed, representing 13.3% of all traffic passing through the survey sites during the 11-hour survey period, which is considered rich and comprehensive sample.

Read more about the results of the 2009 External Travel Survey.

In the summer of 2007 (June), an Interprovincial Roadside Truck Survey was conducted to establish a comprehensive database on interprovincial heavy truck travel patterns in the National Capital Region.

The results of the Interprovincial Roadside Truck Survey are available now.

The primary objective of the National Capital Region (NCR) Travel Trend Study is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the characteristics and causes of significant and relevant regional and inter-provincial transportation trends in the NCR. This monitoring of transportation characteristics, patterns and trends is an important part of transportation planning and decision making in the NCR. The report is divided into a three-step process which cross-relates a series of fundamental demographic and geographic characteristics on the one hand and trip-making characteristics on the other. Part 1 of the report identify and describe key relationships between variables recorded in the 2005 TRANS NCR household origin-destination (OD) survey, and thereby provide an understanding of significant transportation characteristics and patterns across the NCR . The conclusions presented in Part 1 are built on in Parts 2 and 3 with the addition of a time component to derive trends from previous surveys and to make projections, respectively.

Part 1 and Parts 2 and 3 have been released.