Provision of a national household travel survey
It is intended that a national household travel survey will provide essential travel behaviour data to support the NTA's transport planning role and for the maintenance of various transport models.
The Authority currently operates and maintains a multi-modal transport model for the GDA. The model was previously maintained by the DTO and came into the ownership of the NTA when the Authority was established in December 2009 and subsumed the DTO.
The GDA model covers two time periods – a 3-hour AM peak period (7 to 10) and a one hour off peak period (2 to 3) in the afternoon. While the trip assignment component of the current model represents trips in the AM peak and afternoon off-peak only, the demand model component requires data on all-day travel patterns and journey purposes.
The model was updated in 2008 to incorporate the 2006 travel and Census data. The next update is scheduled for late 2012, to incorporate the travel and demographic data from the 2011 Census. The Census will provide comprehensive data on the patterns of travel to work and education that are the dominant journey purposes in the AM Peak. However, the model update will also require travel data on other all-day journey purposes – including trips to shopping, leisure, business etc., and the primary objective of the household survey is to provide this data.
It is all intended that the data will be used to maintain similar multi-modal transport models that have been developed for other regional cities in Ireland, including Cork, Limerick and Galway.
The NTA also intend to use the data in the development of a national transport model.
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Deadline
The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2012-01-31.
The procurement was published on 2011-12-23.
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Procurement history
| Date |
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| 2011-12-23
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Contract notice
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| 2012-03-28
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Contract award notice
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