Transport in the South Peninsula Thursday, April 06, 2017

723 Total Responses Date Created: Wednesday, November 23, 2016 Date analysed: Thursday, April 6, 2017 Complete Responses: 468

Q1: Do you mainly use a car most weekday mornings and/or afternoons? Answered: 722 Skipped: 1 630 The survey was aimed at the 87%

Q2: Do you use your car to: Answered: 577 Skipped: 146 - the attrition must be non-commuters While the majority who use their car just travel to work (60%), 40% include school trips. Separating out scholar transport needs creates options for work travel

Q5: Most weekday mornings and/ or afternoons do you mainly use (1=most; 3=least): Answered: 52 Skipped: 671 Once those who use private and public transport were filtered out, those who use alternative transport remained. Their mode choice is prioritised: Choice

This relates to those who don’t use public transport Q6: Is the impact of your carbon footprint one of your considerations when making travel choices? Answered: 92 Skipped: 631 This relates to those who don’t use public transport 39

Q8: Do you use mainly (choose one): Answered: 15 Skipped: 708 Those who said they regularly use public transport in the mornings indicated the type: 4 2 11

Q9: Rank your reasons for using public transport from most (1) to least (8) important: Answered: 14 Skipped: 709

Q10: Would you be prepared to introduce someone to public transport who has never used it in this area before, by inviting them to join you, or travelling with them? Answered: 15 Skipped: 708 It is known that a “helping hand” can initiate an attempt to move to a more “risky” travel choice

Approximate modal split of respondents This reflects the target group of the survey, rather than a representation of residents’ choices. The sample size is best for the private transport users

Q11: If you use your own car to travel, what is your suburb of origin? Answered: 487 Skipped: 236 Most of the respondents are car users come from Noordhoek and Fish Hoek (227, ie 46,6%), followed by Kommetjie, Sunnydale and Capri The major destination area is the Sothern Suburbs (45%), followed by within the study area (22%), and the CBD and surrounds (20%). 13% of respondents travel to multiple destinations outside the study area daily (making it difficult to car share / use public transport)

Q13: Approximately how much do you spend? Answered: 516 Skipped: 207 Monthly fuel Annual maintenance Car travel is expensive. A Metroplus monthly ticket from Simonstown to the CBD is R394

Q15: How much time do you spend in traffic to your destination … Answered: 511 Skipped: 212 during peak times? In the event of an accident? 243 165 An accident affects those travelling the furthest, the most

Q17: If you use Chapmans Peak Drive, do you make use of their “frequent user” and Wildcard discounts? Answered: 510 Skipped: 213 Assuming that the “yes” and “no” respondents use Chapmans Peak Drive, only 40% of them use the frequent user benefits. Is this to do with awareness (which this survey would have addressed), or the nature of the frequent user benefit?

Q18: Are you part of a lift club / carpooling arrangement? Answered: 516 Skipped: 207 88 83% of respondents are not part of a lift club / carpool

Q19: If yes, How many people (including the driver) on average in the carpool? Answered: 87 Skipped: 636

Q20: Does this include taking children to school? Answered: 87 Skipped: 636 48 Separating out school transport would create greater flexibility for 55% of car poolers / lift club participants

Q21: If no: What would induce you to start a lift club / join a carpooling arrangement? (1= most important factor, 5=lease important factor) Answered: 367 Skipped: 356

However, overall, the factors ranked fairly evenly. Q21: If no: What would induce you to start a lift club / join a carpooling arrangement? (1= most important factor, 5=lease important factor) Answered: 367 Skipped: 356 In terms of inducements, increase in travel costs was the most significant factor. But flexitime is also a high priority. However, overall, the factors ranked fairly evenly. Significantly, “not applicable” was the priority response for 41%, and ranked equally to the other responses overall, as well as having the greatest number of respondents. Does this mean that they would not even consider it as a travel option? Or was an important factor excluded from the choices? It was not referred to in the open comments section

Q22: Did you use public transport before, at any stage, as your main mode of commuter (incl education) travel since you have lived in this area? Answered: 404 Skipped: 319 131

Q23: Would you consider trying out a public transport service? Answered: 272 Skipped: 451 132 As many as used to use public transport, would consider using it in future

The highest response is to avoid congestion Q24: What factors would induce you to revert back / shift to public transport?  Which of the following are the main reasons for not using your car (1= most important, to 5= least important): Answered: 220 Skipped: 503 The highest response is to avoid congestion

Reliability / availability, and feeling secure are important. Q25: Which of the factors below do you think are most important for improving public transport?   (1= most important, 5= least important): Answered: 352 Skipped: 371 While avoiding congestion would get people out of cars, greater time saving is seen as the least significant improvement needed in public transport. Reliability / availability, and feeling secure are important.

Q26: What circumstances would induce you to use a bicycle or walk (1= most important , 6= least important)? Answered: 285 Skipped: 438 The highest response was for shorter travel distances, which is a land use matter

Q27: Is the impact of your carbon footprint one of your considerations when making travel choices? Answered: 461 Skipped: 262 251 People do have an environmental awareness wrt their travel choices, but cannot always act on this