1. Transport in the South Peninsula
Thursday, April 06, 2017

2. 723 Total Responses Date Created: Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Date analysed: Thursday, April 6, 2017
Complete Responses: 468

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

4. Q2: Do you use your car to:
Answered: Skipped: 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

5. Q5: Most weekday mornings and/ or afternoons do you mainly use (1=most; 3=least):
Answered: 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

6. 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: Skipped: 631
This relates to those who don’t use public transport 39

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

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

9. 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: Skipped: 708
It is known that a “helping hand” can initiate an attempt to move to a more “risky” travel choice

10. 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

11. Q11: If you use your own car to travel, what is your suburb of origin?
Answered: 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)

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

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

14. Q17: If you use Chapmans Peak Drive, do you make use of their “frequent user” and Wildcard discounts?
Answered: 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?

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

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

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

18. 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: Skipped: 356

19. 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: 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

20. 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: Skipped: 319
131

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

22. 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: Skipped: 503
The highest response is to avoid congestion

23. 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: 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.

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

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