Victorian Integrated Survey of Travel and Activity
Results from the VISTA 07 survey now available
The Victorian Integrated Survey of Travel and Activity 2007 (VISTA 07) provides a detailed picture of how people in Melbourne, Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo, Shepparton and Latrobe travel on an average day.
Summary data from VISTA 07 is freely available through a customised online analysis tool. View the VISTA 07 data.
A summary brochure of travel statistics from VISTA 07 (PDF, 1.6 MB, 12 pp) providing benchmark data and a comparison of travel between the Melbourne, Geelong and regional centres, is also available for download.
A follow up survey to VISTA 07 is now underway. More information about the current data collection, including information for households that have been selected to take part in the survey, is available below.
Information on this page
Overview of VISTA 09
The Victorian Integrated Survey of Travel and Activity 2009 (VISTA 09) will run from July 2009 to June 2010. The survey collects information from households in Melbourne, Geelong and the regional centres of Ballarat, Bendigo, Shepparton and Latrobe.
VISTA 09 asks members of surveyed households to complete a travel diary for a specified day. By collecting information on all personal travel made - from walking the dog, through to a flight interstate - VISTA09 will enhance our understanding of the complex travel interactions occurring in our communities.
This detailed picture of travel will inform the transport and land-use planning decisions being made by Government. Furthermore, by surveying different households on different days of the year, seasonal changes in travel behaviour can be identified.
VISTA 09 is being undertaken on behalf of the Department of Transport by the Urban Transport Institute and I-View Pty Ltd.
VISTA 09 Survey Area
Information for VISTA 09 Survey Participants
To get a comprehensive picture of travel in Melbourne, the Department would like to obtain a response from all selected households. This is regardless of whether household members travel a lot, or hardly at all.
If your household has been selected to participate in VISTA 09, and you have any queries, please do not hesitate to ring the survey office on
1800 034 523 (free call), or
email the survey team. You may also like to read the answers to
Frequently Asked Questions (PDF, 56 KB, 4 pp.) about VISTA 09.
All information collected through VISTA 09 is treated confidentially. Results are aggregated to provide an overview of daily travel across a region, and all personal contact information is deleted from survey data prior to its use for transport planning purposes. No name, address or contact information of VISTA 09 participants is kept by the Department of Transport.
VISTA 09 Survey Forms
Copies of the various VISTA 09 questionaire sections can be downloaded below:
- Household form - Front page (PDF, 460 KB, 1 p.)
- Household form - Inside page (Person information, 1 of 2) (PDF, 587 KB, 1 p.)
- Household form - Inside page (Person information, 2 of 2) (PDF, 589 KB, 1 p.)
- Household form - Back page - Vehicle information (PDF, 606 KB, 1 p.)
- Travel diary - front page (PDF, 464 KB, 1 p.)
- Travel diary - sample stop page (PDF, 544 KB, 1 p.)*
- Travel diary - income question (PDF, 358 KB, 1 p.)
- Travel diary - additional information (PDF, 173 KB, 1 p.)
* While only one sample 'stop page' is included as a download here, the actual travel diary includes 13 stop pages. Additional diaries can be requested by individuals who travel a lot on their survey day.
Further information
View answers to the
Frequently Asked Questions (PDF, 56 KB, 4 pp.), or
email the survey team.