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COVID-19 impacts on transport

Published: | Category: General , Research programme , COVID-19 , Statistics & surveys

Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency instigated a continuous monitor across New Zealand to assess the impact of COVID-19 on people's transport choices. 

The in-field questions started Friday, 3 April 2020. The nationally representative study offers insights into how people respond in their transport choices, their perceptions and attitudes to different modes of transport and how they change under the different COVID-19 Alert Levels. 

High level analyses, deep dive analyses and infographics will be published as they become available.

Waka Kotahi has also created summarised tables from the COVID-19 impacts on transport research, and released them as open data to enable people to do their own analysis:

Impacts of COVID-19 on transport choices survey(external link)

The data shows how New Zealanders felt, behaved and travelled under the different COVID-19 alert levels.

Publication details

COVID-19 impacts on transport

Analysis Report date
Deep dive – wave 30 working from home [PDF, 1.2 MB] 28 June 2023
Core report wave 30 [PDF, 1.2 MB] 21 June 2023
Deep dive – wave 29 working from home [PDF, 723 KB] 28 November 2022
Core report wave 29 [PDF, 1001 KB] 18 November 2022
Core report wave 28 [PDF, 1000 KB] 14 Jun 2022
Core report wave 27 [PDF, 984 KB] 18 Mar 2022
Core report wave 26 [PDF, 1020 KB] 14 Sep 2021
Deep dive – wave 26 disability impacts [PDF, 781 KB] 14 Sep 2021
Core report wave 25 [PDF, 930 KB] 31 May 2021
Presentation to Australian Transport Data Action Network [PDF, 1.5 MB] 31 Mar 2021
Core report wave 24 [PDF, 1002 KB] 18 Mar 2021
Questionnaire changes tracking log [XLSX, 28 KB] 3 Feb 2021
Deep dive – wave 23 public transport usage in the Greater Christchurch area [PDF, 562 KB] 19 Nov 2020
Deep dive – wave 23 Gold Card users [PDF, 661 KB] 18 Nov 2020
Deep dive – wave 23 active modes [PDF, 923 KB] 17 Nov 2020
Core report wave 23 [PDF, 973 KB] 17 Nov 2020
Core report wave 22 [PDF, 929 KB] 20 Oct 2020
Core report wave 21 [PDF, 886 KB] 29 Sep 2020
Core report wave 20 [PDF, 1.9 MB] 24 Sep 2020
Core report wave 19 [PDF, 1.7 MB] 8 Sep 2020
Deep dive – wave 18 Wellington [PDF, 951 KB] 2 Sep 2020
Core report wave 18 [PDF, 1.2 MB] 1 Sep 2020
Core report wave 17 [PDF, 2 MB] 25 Aug 2020
Deep dive – walking and cycling [PDF, 1.5 MB] 18 Aug 2020
Core report wave 16 [PDF, 726 KB] 4 Aug 2020
Knowledge Hub presentation [PDF, 2.5 MB] 28 Jul 2020
Core report wave 15 [PDF, 713 KB] 21 Jul 2020
Core report wave 14 [PDF, 682 KB] 7 Jul 2020
Core report wave 13 [PDF, 683 KB] 30 Jun 2020
Deep dive – wave 13 impact of fares on public transport [PDF, 513 KB] 30 Jun 2020
Core report wave 12 [PDF, 642 KB] 23 Jun 2020
Deep dive – wave 12 continuing self-isolation [PDF, 470 KB] 23 Jun 2020
Deep dive – wave 11 commuter traffic [PDF, 446 KB] 16 Jun 2020
Core report wave 11 [PDF, 643 KB] 16 Jun 2020
Core report wave 10 [PDF, 604 KB] 9 Jun 2020
Core report wave 9 [PDF, 700 KB] 3 Jun 2020
Deep dive – wave 9 [PDF, 495 KB] 3 Jun 2020
Core report wave 8 [PDF, 697 KB] 26 May 2020
Core report wave 7 [PDF, 671 KB] 19 May 2020
Deep dive – working from home [PDF, 857 KB] 19 May 2020
Deep dive – tracking active modes [PDF, 864 KB] 18 May 2020
Core report wave 6 [PDF, 648 KB] 12 May 2020
Deep dive – wave 6 [PDF, 836 KB] 12 May 2020
Infographic level 3 [PDF, 114 KB] 10 May 2020
Core report wave 5 [PDF, 680 KB] 5 May 2020
Deep dive – waves 3-5 commuter traffic, active modes and mode usage [PDF, 474 KB] 5 May 2020
Infographic level 4 [PDF, 112 KB] 28 Apr 2020
Core report wave 4 [PDF, 987 KB] 28 Apr 2020