Travel survey data provides important background information for the formulation of national and regional transport policy, for development of the infrastructure and transport services, for work with transport safety and for research and development on travel and communications.

SIKA has collected data in national travel surveys first in Riks-RVU from 1994 to 1998, then in RES from 1999 to 2001. The most recent study is RES 2005-2006, which covers the period 1 October 2005 to 30 September 2006.

The extent of the studies
A key aspect of the travel surveys is to survey the respondents’ movements during a set measurement day for each person and to survey long-distance journeys  over a longer period of time by telephone interviews. Information about the mode of transport, the length of the journey, the starting and finishing point, are collected. The study also gathers information about gender. age, employment, holding of driving licences, and household resources in the form of a car and housing form.

Publication
Annual reports have been published for Riks-RVU and RES from 1994 to 2001, and in electronic form from RES 1999.  The report from RES0506 was published in July 2007 and will be translated to English.

Contact
Linnea Abramowski, phone: +46 63 14 00 11,

e-mail: Linnea Abramowski

Andreas Holmström, phone +46 63 14 00 16,

e-mail: Andreas Holmström