Workshop TR 2.2, Tuesday 20 June, 14.00 - 15.30
Data Collection as basis for policies: survey techniques
Anthony J. Richardson, Professor of Transport Planning, Institute of Transport Studies
Martin Utiger, Member of the project management of the foundation Veloland Schweiz, Velobüro, Switzerland
Jürg Tschopp, Verkehrsclub Schweiz, Switzerland

Intercept Surveys of Cycle Usage

The development of on-road and off-road cycle networks has seen cycling become more of a mainstream mode of transport for a variety of trip purposes. To support this new position, and to ensure that policies for cycling are based on the best available data, surveys of cycle travel patterns need to be conducted using state-of-the-art professional survey techniques. This paper describes surveys conducted on the Swiss Veloland Cycle Network in 1998 and 1999, which used intercept surveys of cyclists at various sites on the network. Three survey techniques were employed; a full count of cyclists at each site, a short trackside interview with a random sample of passing cyclists at each site, and a more comprehensive self-completion questionnaire which sampled cyclists were given to complete and return by post after their trip had finished. The paper outlines the techniques used in the conduct of the Veloland survey, and in the estimation of system-wide usage of the network from the data obtained at the survey sites
Pax Kroon, planner, Province of Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands

User inquiry as instrument for improving policies

In the region of Rotterdam and in the province of South Holland there are in 1998 and 1999 three surveys executed: one in the region of Rotterdam (making an inventory of the quality of the most important bicycle routes) and two in the province of South Holland: an user inquiry, and an inventory like in the region of Rotterdam.

1. ROTTERDAM, INVENTORY. The total length of the cyclenetwork in the region of Rotterdam is 918 kilometres. There are made about 4.000 pictures, every 200 metres average.

2. SOUTH HOLLAND, USER INQUIRY.

On 25 places, with a spreading in the whole province, 2.000 inquiryforms are given to cyclists. About 600 of these forms are returned.

3. SOUTH HOLLAND, INVENTORY.

The roads of the province of South Holland are main roads, below the level of motorway. The total road length is about 500 kilometres. These bicycle provisions are examined simular to the region of Rotterdam.