FreiRad questionnaire survey of Austrian elementary school teachers on the voluntary cycling test

Survey motivation

A consortium comprising of the consultancies (1) klarFakt and (2) stape e.U. URBAN CONSULTING together with (3) Research center of Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering at TU Wien was commissioned by the Austrian federal Climate and Energy Fund to study the status quo of the Austrian voluntary cycling test for children.

Within this study named "FreiRad - Voluntary Cycling Test for All Children" parents of school children were surveyed for their and their children's experiences with the voluntary cycling test. While this test is not compulsory, its successful completion allows children to cycle independently from the age of 10 onwards. In general, the Austrian road code permits independent cycling from the age of 12.

Survey implementation

The online survey was implemented using the online polling tool www.surveymonkey.com.For different distribution methods different collector URLs were implemented - leading to the exact same survey. The survey was disseminated to potential participants via following methods/channels:

Through email addresses of all elementary schools that were provided by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education. School principals were kindly asked to distribute the survey URL among their teachers.

By sharing the survey URL over the consortium members' social media channels (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn) and asking elementary school teachers to participate and to snowball the survey to other elementary school teachers.

Survey duration

The survey was accessible during ten days in May of 2022.

Project funding

Large parts of his research were funded by Kommunalkredit Public Consulting GmbH within the funding scheme “Nachhaltige Mobilität in der Praxis” in the project “Freiwillige Radfahrprüfung für alle Kinder – FreiRad” (contract number: KR20NM0K18478).

Files

(1) Survey questions in German: 2022-05-11_fragebogen_LuL_final.pdf(2) File of all participants' answers in German: 2022-07-20_LuL_alle-antworten_numerisch_final_DE_ex-Jahr.xlsx(3) Translation file for questions and answers from German to English: 2025-07-17_LuL_fragen+antworten_uebersetzung-DE-EN_final.xlsx

Data privacy

From file (2) the participant's year of birth was deleted for reasons of data protection and replaced with an age bin.