Scientific background:

The Continuous Survey on Travel Behaviour (KONTIV) was carried out in the former West Germany in 1976, 1982 and 1989 by the Ministry for Transport. Result of a new travel survey entitled "MOBILITY IN GERMANY" was published. The following study will be carried out in 2008.

The main task of the study is to compile representative and reliable information on the social demography of individuals and households and on their daily travel behaviour (e.g. trips made according to purpose and means of transportation used) for an entire year. Once it has been weighted and expanded, the information will serve as a framework for and supplement to other travel surveys, such as traffic surveys in individual cities (e.g. the System for Representative Travel Surveys - SrV), cross-sectional censuses of traffic loads and the mobility panel.

The MOBILITY IN GERMANY study will also provide up-to-date data on important variables that influence mobility (e.g. number of driver's licences) and will be the basis for transport models.

The results of the study are not only important for transport planning, research and academic interest; they also provide quantitative background information for concrete political decision-making.

As a multi-purpose study, MOBILITY IN GERMANY must fulfil two criteria in particular:

• The size of the sample must be large enough to do justice to as many questions as possible.
  Therefore, results will be provided for approximately 50,000 households 2008 as well as 2002.
  
  
• The data yielded must be representative, which requires careful and controllable stratified sampling and expansion.