Understanding Nationwide Travel Patterns... Conducting the 'National Passenger Travel Survey'

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and the Korea Transport Institute announced on the 17th that they will conduct the "National Passenger Travel Survey" for about a month from the 19th of this month to the 21st of next month to understand the travel patterns of the people of the Republic of Korea.

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport conducts a national-level traffic survey annually under the National Integrated Transport System Efficiency Act to reasonably establish and implement national transportation policies such as the national core transport network plan and mid-term investment plans. This National Passenger Travel Survey is conducted as part of the national transportation survey.

The purpose of the National Passenger Travel Survey is to understand how the travel behavior of the people has changed due to changes in population structure, socio-economic conditions, national spatial structure, and transportation systems.

The survey is conducted by building data on the volume of travel (O/D) of people or vehicles moving from an origin to a destination for a specific purpose.

The survey targets the general public, and the results are used as basic data for preparing national transportation statistics such as modal split and commuting time, establishing national transportation plans, and evaluating the feasibility of transportation SOC through preliminary feasibility studies.

This survey consists of five types: ▲Personal Travel Behavior Survey ▲Passenger Transportation Facility Usage Survey ▲Expressway Usage Survey ▲Chartered Bus Survey ▲Traffic Volume Survey. The central government and local governments jointly conduct the survey through agreements.

This year, to respond to the non-face-to-face era due to COVID-19, online non-face-to-face methods such as mobile web and QR codes will be introduced. At the same time, the reliability of the survey will be secured by verifying it based on communication base station data.

Ahn Seok-hwan, Director General of Comprehensive Transport Policy at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, said, "This National Passenger Travel Survey aims to build essential basic data for establishing national and regional transportation policies," and added, "We ask for the public's interest and active participation to ensure an accurate and highly reliable survey."

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