Transport is a derived demand but today transport plays dominant role in our lives as we become more

complex day by day. So there is a necessity of studying about transport characteristics. Surveys had been
done nationally internationally in order to identify those and how to improve the transport system.

According to the “National Travel Survey: England 2017” by department for Transport in England, travel
characteristics of people in England as follows,

” Following a trend of steady decreases in trip rates and miles travelled since the late-1990s, there was
an increase in the average number of trips and the average miles travelled per person in the two years
from 2015 to 2017.

People made 975 trips on average in 2017, around 19 trips per week. This was a 2% increase on the level
in 2016. While trip rates for most modes of transport remained similar between 2016 and 2017, there
was an increase in the number of short walks recorded.

However, the trip rate in 2017 was 11% lower than the highest recorded in both 1978/79 and 1996/98
of 1,097; the average of 6,580 miles travelled in 2017 was 9% lower than the high of 7,211 recorded in
2003.

On average, people spent about an hour a day travelling in 2017, including 36 minutes by car on
average, and 12 minutes walking”

Department for Transport. (2017). National Travel Survey (p.1). Retrieved from
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/72
9521/national-travel-survey-2017.pdf

Data had been collected through interviews as we done and a one-week travel diary. The data had
analyzed in transport mode, distance, time, purpose as us. Further car ownership, license holding,
Average cycling trip and distance are some other analysis of it comparing to ours.

When consider about “Travel Characteristics Survey 2011 Final Report” by Hong Kong Transport
Department, it is covered almost all the areas what we have learnt in lectures about transport
characteristics.

“The Travel Characteristics Survey 2011 1 (TCS 2011) aimed to collect up-to-date travel characteristics
data and develop such data into a database. The database will be used for subsequent updating and
enhancement of the Comprehensive Transport Study (CTS) and other government departments’
transport models, as well as to provide information for future transport planning. The last TCS was
conducted in 2002 (TCS 2002)”

Transport Department. (2014). Travel Characteristics Survey 2011 Final Report (p.E-1). Retrieved from
https://www.td.gov.hk/filemanager/en/content_4652/tcs2011_eng.pdf

From this we can get an idea how it had been done. Cycling is also separately considered in here as
England’s one. Comparing travel characteristics weekdays and weekends is also a special feature in here.

Nationally, we considered about a “survey on travel characteristics of lalan rubber pvt limited” in 2017.
The data had been collected from 60 employees of it and they compare gender comparison,
transportation method vs gender, age vs transport vs method. Further gender, origin of travel,
destination of travel, waiting time and satisfaction are the other facts which are analyzed. This is focused
on home based trips.

When comparing to others here data is collected from only 45 people attracted to Majestic City,
Bambalapitiya. Within this scope we had success analyzed according 9 points then we compared gender
vs mode, age vs mode, age vs trip mode and distance vs mode vs time taken. Comparing to variables is
the traditional way, in here we compared 3 variables by successfully jumping over traditional
boundaries. We collected data by interviewing. There is much detailed facts methodology, introduction,
analyzing and conclusion on the survey.