Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations: Cardiff Travel Survey, Wave 1, 2021

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 2021 (Wave 1) is the first wave of data collected in 2021 (n=731) by the Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST) and is the first of a longitudinal series of surveys to be held annually. This first wave of the Cardiff Travel Survey can be used as a baseline for follow-up surveys as well as possible future information campaigns and interventions. Data for the Cardiff Travel Survey 2021 were collected between 19 May 2021 and 9 July 2021. Participants were recruited through posts on social media, such as Facebook® and Twitter®. Invitations were posted on CAST and investigator accounts as well as local Facebook® pages (e.g., Cardiff Students Postgraduate Network and neighbourhood-specific pages). 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 690 respondents and the Welsh version by 41 respondents. Incomplete responses (n=56), defined as those without any answers beyond socio-demographic information, were removed from the dataset. This left a final sample of 675 adults. Participants were asked to create a unique code that can be used match this survey to the next surveys without knowing their identity. Main topic areas of the questionnaire are: Demographics, Travel behaviours - before coronavirus outbreak, Travel behaviours - current, Physical activity, Physical health and mental wellbeing, Perceptions of infrastructure and environmental quality, Attitudes to active travel, Social norms, Support for transport policies, and Unique ID.