Mobility trend; per stage, modes of travel, purposes of travel, age and sex

This table contains information regarding the mobility of the residents of the Netherlands aged 6 or older in private households, i.e. excluding institutional residents. The mobility behaviour is expressed in the average number of stages per person per day and the average distance travelled per stage. The table contains only stages on Dutch territory, excluding mobility based on series of calls trips and domestic holiday mobility.

The mobility behaviour in stages and the average distance per stage are broken down by travel purpose, mode of travel, sex and age.

Margins of the values (trend estimates) are available in the form of the lower and upper limits of the 95% confidence interval.

Over the years, the research design of the successive mobility surveys has undergone various changes. With time series modeling, these have been corrected as far as possible. The figures of the resulting trend series have therefore been made sequentially comparable between the years. The figures have been calculated with data from four successive Dutch national travel surveys: the Onderzoek Verplaatsingsgedrag (OVG) - for the trend series, the years 1999 to 2003 were used; from the Mobiliteitsonderzoek Nederland (MON)- the years 2004 to 2009 were used, next, from the Onderzoek Verplaatsingen in Nederland (OViN), the years 2010 to 2017 were used; and from the newest mobility survey, which started in 2018 and is still ongoing, Onderweg in Nederland(ODiN) the years 2018 to 2023 were added to the mobility trend.

Data available from: 1999 to 2023 inclusive.

Status of the figures:
The figures in this table are provisional.

Changes as of 25 September 2024:
The provisional figures from 1999-2022 were re-estimated and extended to include figures from the year 2023, in addition, data on average travel time per stage were added.

When will new figures be published?
The trend series is supplemented and recalculated once every 1 to 2 years.