Household Travel in Cairns
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Household Travel in Cairns A summary of results from the 2014 Cairns Household Travel Survey Household Travel in Cairns © The State of Queensland (Department of Transport and Main Roads) 2015 http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/3.0/au This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia Licence You are free to copy, communicate and adapt the work, as long as you attribute the authors. To attribute this material, cite State of Queensland (Department of Transport and Main Roads) 2015, Household Travel in Cairns. 2 Department of Transport and Main Roads, Household Travel in Cairns, February 2015 Department of Transport and Main Roads, Household Travel in Cairns, February 2015 Household Travel in Cairns The Department of Transport and Main Roads recognises the importance of understanding About the 2014 Cairns Household Travel Survey how Queenslanders travel and using this information to support planning and investment Data in this report is taken from the 2014 Cairns outcomes that deliver an efficient and integrated Household Travel Survey. Survey results are transport network. representative of personal travel by Cairns residents on a typical school term weekday. The Queensland Household Travel Program supports this vision through providing an Sample evidence base for understanding the unique The survey collected comprehensive travel travel behaviours of regions across the state. information from a final sample (i.e. only those who returned completed forms) of 2,641 The 2014 Cairns Household Travel Survey provides households in private dwellings across the Cairns information on the daily travel behaviour of urban centre (study area map below). The final Cairns residents, including how and why they household response rate was 51%. travel, at what time of day certain trips occur, and the average trip distance and duration. Methodology Each member of a selected household is asked to A full 2014 Cairns Household Travel Survey record all the travel undertaken on a nominated dataset is available to download from the day over a week in a travel diary. Queensland Government Data Portal. The database can be accessed from: Weighting www.data.qld.gov.au Results are benchmarked to the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ 2011 Census of Population Cairns: Fast Travel Facts* and Housing resident population and adjusted for the proportion living in private dwellings. 469,700 trips The estimated number of trips Palm Cove made each weekday 3.2 trips The average number of daily Trinity Beach trips per person Kuranda 137,600 trips The number of trips made during Holloways Beach the AM peak (7.00–9.00am) each weekday Kamerunga Aeroglen 145,900 trips The number of trips made during the PM peak (3.00–5.00pm) Brinsmead each weekday Manunda Redlynch 11 kilometres Average daily distance travelled Portsmith per person 18 minutes Average daily time spent Mount Sheridan travelling per person *Figures rounded to the nearest hundred Edmonton Department of Transport and Main Roads, Household Travel in Cairns, February 2015 3 Travel Behaviour* | Cairns How do people travel*? Why do people travel*? Proportion ofProportion trips by mode of trips by mode Proportion ofProportion trips by purpose of trips by purpose Proportion of trips by mode Proportion of trips by purpose Private vehicle Private vehicle 2% 2% 7% 7% Work Work 9% 9% (driver) (driver) 17% 17% 2% 2% Private vehicle Private vehicle Private vehicle Education Education 2% (passenger) (passenger) 7% Work 9% (driver) 17% 25% 25% 2% Shopping/ Shopping/ Public transport Public transport Private vehicle personal Educationpersonal 28% 28% (passenger) 25% 58% 58% Accompanying Accompanying Cycle Cycle Shopping/ Public transport others others 39% 39% personal 28% 11% 11% Social/ Social/ 58% Walk Walk Accompanying Cycle recreation recreation 39% others 11% Social/ Walk recreation Mode shareMode by purpose share byof trippurpose of trip How are trips made on the network**? Work Work Mode93% share by93% purpose of trip 1% 6% 1% 6% Education Education 71% 71% 15% 15% 14% 14% Work 93% 1% 6% Shopping/ Shopping/ 88% 88% 1% 11% 1% 11% personal Educationpersonal 71% 15% 14% Accompanying Accompanying Shopping/ 79% 79% 1% 1% 21% 21% others others 88% 1% 11% personal Social/ Social/ Accompanying 93% 93% 7% 7% recreation recreation 1% others 79% 21% Social/ Private vehicle Private vehiclePublic transport Public transport93%Active transport Active transport 7% recreation Private vehicle Public transport Active transport How far do22% people22% travel^*? Average distance and duration of trips by mode AM peak AM peakProportion ofProportion of trips in trips in 22% 10 peak/o peakpeak/o peak Private vehicle PM peak PM peak Proportion of Average distance (km) (driver) 56% 56% AM peak trips17 in O peak O peak 21% 21% PM peak peak/o peak Average duration (min) 56% 9 Private vehicle (passenger) 16 21% O peak 10 Public transport 47 Proportion ofProportion trips by time of trips of arrival by time of arrival 4 Cycle 20 Proportion of trips by time of arrival 45% 45% 1 AM peak AM peak PM peak PM peak Work Work Walk *Graphs may not equal 100% in some cases due to rounding. 15 40% 45%40% ** Note: Walking and cycling have been grouped to form active transport mode to ensureEducation sufficientEducation sample size and maintain AM peak PM peak Work 8.9 integrity of results. Private vehicle driver and passenger have 35%Overall40% (all modes)35% also been grouped Shopping/for comparisonShopping/ purposes. 14 ^* Note: Due to weightingpersonal of trips,Educationpersonal varying trip lengths and varying travel times, the average figures provided for distance 30% 35% 30% Accompanying Accompanying and duration cannotothers be usedShopping/ to calculateothers an overall average speed. personal Proportion of trips in distance bands by purpose ofSocial/ trip Social/ 25% 30% 25% recreation Accompanyingrecreation others 4 Department of Transport and Main Roads, Household TravelSocial/ in Cairns, February 2015 Department of Transport and Main Roads, Household Travel in Cairns, February 2015 20% 25%20% Work 12% 19% 26% 30% recreation13% 15% 20% 15% Proportion of total daily trips daily Proportion total of E trips daily Proportion total of ducation 25% 33% 23% 16% 3% 10% 15% 10% Proportion of total daily trips daily Proportion total of Shopping/ 5% 10% 5% 27% 30% 23% 15% 4% personal 0% 5% 0% 1 Soc2ial/ 3 1 4 2 5 3 6 4 7 5 8 6 9 7 10 8 11 9 1210 13 11 1412 15 13 1614 17 15 1816 19 17 2018 2119 2220 2321 2422 23 24 28% 25% 23% 17% 7% recreational 0% Trip arrival Triptime arrival (hours time of the (hours day) of the day) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Accompanying 23% 30% 25% 17% 5% others Trip arrival time (hours of the day) Overall (all purposes) 23% 27% 24% 20% 7% 0–2 km 2–5 km 5–10 km 10–20 km 20+ km Average distance and duration of trips by mode 10 Private vehicle Average distance (km) (driver) 17 Average duration (min) 9 PrivateProportion vehicle of trips by mode Proportion of trips by purpose (passenger) 16 Private10 vehicle Public transport 2% 7% Work 9% (driver) 17% 47 2% Private vehicle Education (passenger) 4 25% Cycle Shopping/ Public transport 20 personal Travel Behaviour*28% | Cairns 58% Accompanying 1 Cycle others Walk 39% 15 11% Social/ Walk recreation 8.9 Overall (all modes) 14 Mode share by purpose of trip What destinations do people travel the furthest to reach*? Work Proportion of93% trips in distance bands by purpose of trip 1% 6% Education 71% 15% 14% Work 12% 19% 26% 30% 13% Shopping/ 88% 1% 11% personal Accompanying 79% 1% 21% Eothersducation 25% 33% 23% 16% 3% Social/ 93% 7% recreation Shopping/ 27% 30% 23% 15% 4% personal Private vehicle Public transport Active transport Social/ 28% 25% 23% 17% 7% recreational Accompanying 23% 30% 25% 17% 5% others 22% AM peak Proportion of trips in PM peak peak/o peak Overall (all purposes) 56% 23% 27% 24% 20% 7% 21% O peak 0–2 km 2–5 km 5–10 km 10–20 km 20+ km When is the network busiest*? Proportion of trips by time of arrival 45% AM peak PM peak Work 40% Education 35% Shopping/ personal 30% Accompanying others Social/ 25% recreation 20% 15% Proportion of total daily trips daily Proportion total of 10% 5% 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Trip arrival time (hours of the day) *Graphs may not equal 100% in some cases due to rounding Department of Transport and Main Roads, Household Travel in Cairns, February 2015 5 Travel Behaviour Comparison * | Cairns and other Queensland centres Mode share Cairns Gladstone Greater Brisbane Sunshine Coast Mackay urban Townsville Private vehicle (driver) Private vehicle 58% 62% 56% 61% 63% 61% (passenger) Public transport 23% 25% Cycle 28% 26% 28% 28% 10% 2% 4% 2% 1% 2% 2% 3% 1.4% 1% 2% Walk 12% 6% 10% 8% 7% 6% Purpose share Cairns Gladstone Greater Brisbane Sunshine Coast Mackay urban Townsville 22% Work 25% 26% 27% 28% 26% 9% 11% 10% 11% 10% Education 9% 30% Shopping/ 26% 23% 24% 39% 26% personal Accompanying 20% others 25% 23% 27% 26% 7% Social/ 17% 19% recreation 14% 14% 13% 14% Average distance (km) by mode Cairns Gladstone Greater Brisbane Sunshine Coast Mackay urban Townsville Private vehicle 11.5 10 9.1 10.2 9 (driver) 7.6 Private vehicle (passenger) 9 8.7 9.9 7.8 7.2 6.6 Public transport 19 14.3 10 11.2 Cycle 8.8 9.7 4 0.9 4.3 3.7 3 4.3 Walk 1 2.8 1.0 1.1 0.8 1.2 Average daily trip rate (per person per weekday) Cairns Gladstone Greater Brisbane Sunshine Coast Mackay urban Townsville Daily trip rate 3.2 3.7 3.3 3.4 3.7 3.6 *Graphs may not equal 100% in some cases due to rounding 6 Department of Transport and Main Roads, Household Travel in Cairns, February 2015 Department of Transport and Main Roads, Household Travel in Cairns, February 2015 Glossary Mode Share The primary mode of transport used for a trip as a proportion of all trips.