Pōneke / Wellington transport survey

This survey provides insights into Wellingtonians’ travel patterns and their perceptions of the city’s transport system. The survey captures responses from adults who live in Wellington city.

The findings will enable long-term monitoring of residents’ perceptions, provide data for Wellington City Council’s annual reports, and inform the evaluation of selected transport projects and programmes.

Initial reports are providing valuable insights into residents’ perceptions of road safety, their travel to work, and children’s travel to school.

Residents’ perceptions about travel to work

This report provides insights based on residents’ perceptions about travel to work in Wellington city.

Wellingtonians’ opinions about road safety

This report presents results related to residents’ opinions about road safety in Wellington city, including their preferences along the continuum of prioritising road safety versus shorter travel time and opinions about optimal speed limits for city streets.

It offers insights into residents’ perceptions of traffic safety for walking and biking to work and children’s travel to school, perceived safety for walking and biking on various types of city streets, anticipated benefits from lowering speed limits, speeding penalties, and road safety publicity in Wellington city.