OriginDestination Survey

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2005 Origin-Destination Survey Summary of
Results National Capital Region December 2006
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Purpose of Survey

• Transportation planning is a continuous process
  O-D surveys are invaluable references to help
  understand ever-changing transportation needs

• snapshot of travel patterns
• who, where, why, when and how of trips
• trends

• The 2005 O-D Survey is the latest in a series of
  surveys conducted regularly over the past 35 years

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Methodology
Survey Process and Sampling

• Telephone interviews

• 100,000 randomly selected households,
• notified in advance by mail

• Sampling target for each of 22 urban / rural
  sampling districts

• 23,912 surveys (5.1 of all households)
• retained for statistical expansion
• a rich, comprehensive data base

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Methodology
Survey Area
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Methodology
Survey Process (contd)

• Survey software
• logical interview progression
• English / French
• integration of data collection and validation,
• for more quality and less processing

• Information collected on all trips made
• by each household member age 11
• over a 24-hour period, on the day prior to the
  call
• weekdays, 21 September to 29 November 2005

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Methodology
Three Categories of Data Collected
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Methodology
What is a Trip?

• A single movement by a person from
• an origin to a destination, for a single
  purpose
• one or more modes, one or more transfers

• Examples
• Home to work by bus 1 trip
• Home to daycare, to drop off a child, then to
  work,
• all by auto 2 trips
• Home to work by auto and by LRT 1 trip

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Key Survey Findings
Key Determinants and Indicators of Travel

• 1,150,600 residents

• 465,400 households

• 2.47 persons / household

• 578,400 employed persons

• 2,806,200 trips / day

• 6.03 trips / household

• 2.78 trips / person (11)

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Key Survey Findings
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Key Survey Findings
Travel by Time of Day

• Travel has grown at all hours since 1995

• PM peak period 23 of daily travel
• Highest hourly volume
• 10 increase in trips since 1995

• AM peak period 21 of daily travel
• 2nd and 3rd highest hourly volumes
• 13 increase in trips since 1995

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Key Survey Findings
Travel by Time of Day (contd)
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Key Survey Findings
Modal Shares by Time of Day
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Key Survey Findings
Modal Shares over Time

• Total motorized trips

• Auto person trips

• Auto driver trips

• Auto passenger trips

• Auto occupancy from 1.32 to 1.23 persons /
  vehicle

• Transit trips

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Key Survey Findings
Travel by Purpose
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Key Survey Findings
Breakdown by Municipal Area

• Population, households, vehicles in Ottawa,
  Outaouais similar proportions of 75, 25

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Key Survey Findings
Breakdown by Municipal Area (contd)
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Key Survey Findings
Major Desire Lines
Top destination combined Ottawa Centre and
Inner Area, 23 of all trips
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Key Survey Findings
Major Desire Lines
Gatineau Est
Pointe Gatineau
Orléans
Ottawa East / Beacon Hill
Hull Périphérie
Plateau
Île de Hull
Ottawa Centre /InnerArea
Aylmer
Alta Vista
OttawaWest
Merivale
Hunt Club
Bayshore /Cedarview
Kanata /Stittsville
South Nepean
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Key Survey Findings
Major Desire Lines
Gatineau Est
Pointe Gatineau
Orléans
Ottawa East / Beacon Hill
Hull Périphérie
Plateau
Île de Hull
Aylmer
Alta Vista
Ottawa Centre /InnerArea
OttawaWest
Merivale
Hunt Club
Bayshore /Cedarview
Kanata /Stittsville
South Nepean
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Key Survey Findings
Major Desire Lines
Gatineau Est
Pointe Gatineau
Orléans
Ottawa East / Beacon Hill
Hull Périphérie
Plateau
Île de Hull
Aylmer
Alta Vista
Ottawa Centre /InnerArea
OttawaWest
Merivale
Hunt Club
Bayshore /Cedarview
Kanata /Stittsville
South Nepean
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Key Survey Findings
Major Desire Lines
Gatineau Est
Pointe Gatineau
Orléans
Ottawa East / Beacon Hill
Hull Périphérie
Plateau
Île de Hull
Aylmer
Alta Vista
Ottawa Centre /InnerArea
OttawaWest
Merivale
Hunt Club
Bayshore /Cedarview
Kanata /Stittsville
South Nepean
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Key Survey Findings
Interprovincial Travel

• Little change in proportions since 1995

• Increase in volumes by 18 in the morning, 25 in
  the afternoon

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Key Survey Findings
Core Area Travel

• Ottawa Centre Île de Hull as majors generators
  
• 16 of all AM trips, 25 of all AM work trips

• Ottawa Centre highest transit modal shares
  43 of AM peak direction trips
• 41 of PM peak direction trips

• 75 of all trips made within Ottawa Centre
• are walk trips

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Key Survey Findings
Internal Travel

• 21,700 trips within Kanata / Stittsville in the
  morning
• 49 of trips starting there, 56 of trips ending
  there
• most self-contained district
• (second only to Buck / Masson-Angers, which has
  3,700 internal trips)

• 21,750 trips within Orléans in the morning
• 37 of trips starting there, 72 of trips ending
  there
• district with smallest proportion of trips from
  outside

• 350 trips within South Gloucester / Leitrim in
  the morning
• 7 of trips starting there, 17 of trips ending
  there
• least self-contained district

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Next Steps

• www.O-Dsurvey.ca

• Detailed 2-pagers on each of 26 districts

• More analysis to come