Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations: Cardiff Travel Survey, Wave 4, 2024

The Cardiff Travel Survey is a longitudinal survey that aims to (a) establish current and previous (before the coronavirus outbreak) travel habits; (b) explore how travel-related attitudes, social norms and perceptions change over time; and (c) examine the interplay between individual (perceptual) and environmental (infrastructural) factors in travel mode choice, in particular in relation to the uptake of active travel such as walking and cycling in the City of Cardiff, Wales. The Cardiff Travel Survey 2024 (Wave 4) is an opportunity sample that was collected in 2024 (n=2,427) by the Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST), and is the fourth of a longitudinal series of surveys to be held annually for the duration of the centre. Data for the Cardiff Travel Survey 2024 were collected between 11 April 2023 and 05 June 2024. Participants of the Cardiff Travel Survey 2023 who consented (n=1,324) were recontacted via email to invite them to take part in the 2024 survey. Furthermore, participants were recruited through posts on social media, such as Facebook® and Twitter®. Invitations were posted on CAST and investigator accounts. The survey was hosted on the Qualtrics online survey platform and available in both English and Welsh. Inclusion criteria were that participants had to be at least 18 years of age and live in or travel regularly to Cardiff. The English version of the survey was completed by 2,628 respondents and the Welsh version by 9 respondents. There was evidence of bot activity in the English survey. This led to 1,630 responses to be removed. Incomplete responses (n=129), defined as those without any answers beyond socio-demographic, were removed from the dataset. A further 81 respondents did not complete the first section on current travel behaviours and were also removed. This left a final sample of n=797 adults. Participants were asked to create a unique code that can be used match this survey to the previous and next surveys without knowing their identity. Main topic areas of the questionnaire were: Demographics, Travel behaviours, Physical activity, Physical health and mental wellbeing, Perceptions of infrastructure and environmental quality, Travel-related social identity, Attitudes to active travel, Active travel related social norms, Support for active travel policies, and Unique ID.