What is the National Household Travel Survey (NHTS)?
The National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) is a nationwide study of Ireland’s travel habits commissioned by the National Transport Authority. The NHTS is carried out as per the National Transport Authority’s legislation outlined in Sections 11, 72, and 73 of the Dublin Transport Authority Act 2008. The NHTS achieves Government Policy as set out in Goal 8 – Action 69 of the Government of Ireland’s National Sustainable Mobility Policy.
The purpose of the survey is to gather travel information statistics for the National Transport Authority’s ongoing transportation planning role, as well as to provide essential travel data for the update of its regional transport models, the development of additional transport modelling tools and monitoring and research on travel and transport.
The NHTS 2024 has been conducted among 4,000 households throughout the Republic of Ireland between September 2024 and early December 2024. It was the fifth such NHTS, the first having been undertaken in 2012 and the most recent in 2023.
What is the National Transport Authority?
The National Transport Authority is a statutory non-commercial body, which operates under the aegis of the Department of Transport. It was established on foot of the Dublin Transport Authority Act 2008.
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