Transport and Main Roads
Household travel
in Bundaberg
A summary of results from the 2010
Wide Bay Burnett Household Travel Survey
Household Travel in Bundaberg
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Introduction
Household travel in Bundaberg
Key findings
Some of the key insights about travel in Bundaberg include:
• Bundaberg urban has the highest vehicle passenger mode share (at 30%) of all regions surveyed to date. This finding
may suggest that car pooling is more common in this region
• Public transport mode share for trips made by residents of the Bundaberg rural area is higher than many centres,
at 5.5%
• There is a lower proportion of off peak travel in Bundaberg compared to other regional centres
• Bundaberg urban has a high proportion of trips under five kilometres in distance.
Map of study area and trip boundary
Glossary
Bundaberg
Urban
Hervey
Bay
Bundaberg
Rural
Gayndah
Maryborough
Tin Can Bay
- Cooloola
Mode share
The primary mode of transport used for
a trip as a proportion of all trips.
Purpose share
The primary purpose for which a trip is
made as a proportion of all trips.
Vehicle driver
Driver of a private motor vehicle
(includes motorcycle riders).
Vehicle passenger
Passenger in a private motor vehicle.
Gympie
Kingaroy
Public transport
Passenger in a bus (including school
buses), train, ferry or taxi.
Active transport
Person making a trip using walking
and/or cycling only.
Data sources
Data in this report is taken from the
2010 Wide Bay Burnett Household
Travel Survey, unless otherwise stated.
The survey collected comprehensive
travel behaviour information from
a final sample (i.e., only those who
returned completed surveys) of 1
268 households (in private dwellings,
see map above) that was both
geographically and demographically
representative of the resident
population of the respective areas.
Survey results are representative
of personal travel by residents on
a typical school term weekday.
(ASGC 2008 boundary, shown in red)
are excluded from the analysis to
minimise biases caused by unusually
long trips. Where statistics reference a
particular region (for example, “Travel
in Bundaberg urban”), this is referring
to travel by the residents of that region.
Results are based on sample data
benchmarked to 2010 estimated
resident population (ABS catalogue
3235.0 - Population by Age and Sex,
Regions of Australia, 2010) adjusted
for proportions of the population
living in private dwellings (ABS 2006
Census of Population and Housing).
Accompany others
Trips where the trip maker’s primary
purpose for making a trip is to assist
someone else. One example of such
a trip would be dropping a child at
school (or returning directly home
from such a trip), in which case the
parent is making an accompanying trip
and the child is making an education
trip. Another example would be a trip
where a carer accompanies an unwell
person to the doctor (or accompanies
an unwell person directly home
from such a trip), in which case the
unwell person is making a shopping/
personal trip and the carer is making an
accompanying trip.
Trips to or from areas outside the
Wide Bay Burnett Statistical Division
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Weekday mode and purpose share * | Bundaberg urban
>> 176 000 trips per day
The estimated number of trips each
weekday in Bundaberg urban
>> 3.6 trips per person per day
The estimated number of trips
made per person each weekday in
Bundaberg urban
The pie charts below show the proportion of all trips made in Bundaberg urban in terms of the primary mode for the trip
(left) and primary purpose of the trip (right).
Proportion of trips by mode
7%
Proportion of trips by purpose
Private vehicle
(driver)
2%
Work
15%
23%
2%
Private vehicle
(passenger)
Education
Shopping/
personal
Public transport
30%
24%
10%
59%
Accompanying
others
Cycle
Walk
Social/
recreation
28%
Bundaberg urban’s private vehicle mode share is higher
than Greater Brisbane’s but typical of a regional centre.
There are however, more passenger trips and fewer single
driver trips than in other regions.
Bundaberg urban’s purpose share is typical of that seen
across many regional centres in Queensland. These
centres have a lower proportion of work trips and a greater
proportion of shopping/personal business and social/
recreation trips.
The bar graph below shows the mode share in Bundaberg urban within each of the trip purposes.
Mode share by purpose of trip**
Work
94%
Education
63%
15%
23%
Shopping/
personal
<1% 5%
14%
22%
2%
91%
Accompanying
others
1%
95%
10%
Social/
24%
recreation
28%
Private vehicle
84%
Public transport
7%
1%
4%
15%
Active transport
* Graphs may not add to exactly 100% in some cases due to rounding off of figures.
** NOTE:
Walking and cycling has been grouped to form the active transport mode to ensure sufficient sample size and maintain the integrity of results. Private
vehicle driver and passenger have also been grouped into the private vehicle mode.
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Weekday time of travel * | Bundaberg urban
>> 39 000 trips per day during the
AM peak
The estimated number of trips each
weekday during the AM peak in
Bundaberg urban
>> 42 000 trips per day during the
PM peak
The estimated number of trips each
weekday during the PM peak in
Bundaberg urban
The line graph below shows the time of day when travel for different trip purposes occurs.
Proportion of trips by time of arrival
18%
AM peak
PM peak
Work
16%
Proportion of total daily trips
Education
14%
Shopping/
personal
12%
Accompanying
others
10%
Social/
recreation
All purposes
8%
6%
4%
2%
0%
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Trip arrival time (hours of the day)
Proportion of trips in peak/off peak **
While work, education and accompanying trips occur predominantly
during the peaks, shopping/personal trips are distributed evenly across
the day.
24%
AM peak
54%
PM peak
There is a greater proportion of off peak travel than in other centres. The
PM peak is centred predominantly around school travel times and is not
as drawn out by travel from work as it is in other regions.
Off peak
22%
* Graphs may not add to exactly 100% in some cases due to rounding off of figures.
** NOTE:
AM peak in this analysis includes trips arriving between 7-9am and the PM peak includes trips arriving between 3-5pm, with the balance of trips
throughout the remainder of the day making up the off peak period.
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Weekday travel, distance and duration * | Bundaberg urban
>> 18 kilometres
The estimated daily distance
travelled per person each day
>> 42 minutes
The estimated daily time spent
travelling per person each day
The graph below shows the proportion of trips that fall within the defined distance bands for various trip purposes. Public
transport in Bundaberg, unlike many other regions, has the shortest average distance of motorised transport. In contrast
to other regions, private vehicle passenger trips, on average, are longer than driver trips, suggesting that people are car
pooling for longer trips. Three in four trips in Bundaberg are less than five kilometres. This proportion of short trips is
higher than most regions.
Average distance and duration of trips by mode **
5.2
Private vehicle
(driver)
Average distance (km)
11
Average duration (min)
5.6
Private vehicle
(passenger)
11
4.7
Public transport
27
3.4
Cycle
18
Public transport in Bundaberg, unlike
many other regions, has the shortest
average distance of motorised transport.
Also in contrast to other regions, private
vehicle passenger trips are longer than
driver trips, on average, suggesting that
people are car pooling for longer trips.
0.9
Walk
13
5.0
Overall (all modes)
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Proportion of trips by distance bands (by trip purpose)
Work
Three in
Four trips in
Bundaberg
are less
than five
kilometres.
This
proportion
of short
trips is
higher
than most
regions.
21%
44%
25%
36%
Education
Shopping/
personal
5%
44%
37%
5%
17%
46%
2%
2%
13%
2%
2%
Accompanying
others
31%
Social/
recreation
31%
All purposes
31%
0–2 km
50%
15%
38%
22%
45%
2–5 km
5–10 km
10–20 km
2%
4%
18%
4%
3%
3%
20+ km
* Graphs may not add to exactly 100% in some cases due to rounding off of figures.
** NOTE:
Due to the weighting of trips, varying trip lengths and varying travel times, the overall average figures shown here for distance and time cannot be used to
calculate an overall average speed.
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Summary graphs * | Bundaberg rural
Proportion of trip by mode
Proportion of trips by purpose
1%
5%
Private vehicle
(driver)
6%
Private vehicle
(passenger)
Education
Public transport
27%
Work
14%
24%
Shopping/
personal
23%
61%
10%
Accompanying
others
Cycle
Walk
Social/
recreation
29%
Peak and off peak travel
Total trips per weekday
104 000
23%
AM peak
53%
Average trips per person
per weekday
3.4
PM peak
Off peak
24%
Average total weekday
distance travelled per
person 38 kilometres
Average travel distance (kilometres)
Private vehicle
(driver)
11.5
Private vehicle
(passenger)
12
12.9
Public transport
1.9
Cycle
Walk
0.8
11.1
Overall (all modes)
Proportion of trips five kilometres or less
Work
Education
29%
18%
Shopping/
personal
Accompanying
others
47%
35%
Social/
recreation
All trips
49%
37%
* Graphs may not add to exactly 100% in some cases due to rounding off of figures.
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Comparison graphs * | Bundaberg and other Queensland Regions
Note: Regions selected to provide varied examples of travel behaviour across Queensland.
Mode share
Bundaberg rural
Bundaberg urban
Greater Brisbane
Sunshine Coast
Mackay urban
Townsville
61%
59%
56%
61%
63%
61%
26%
28%
Private vehicle
(driver)
Private vehicle
(passenger)
Public transport
23%
25%
Cycle
27%
30%
10%
Walk
Purpose share
Work
5%
1%
6%
7%
2%
Bundaberg rural
Bundaberg urban
24%
23%
10%
10%
Accompanying
others
Social/
recreation
Average distance
(km) by mode
10%
8%
Greater Brisbane
27%
2%
4%
Sunshine Coast
22%
29%
30%
28%
26%
20%
23%
24%
23%
14%
15%
14%
Bundaberg rural
Bundaberg urban
Greater Brisbane
Sunshine Coast
10.2
11.5
Private vehicle
(driver)
11.5
Private vehicle
(passenger)
12
19%
5.2
5.6
7%
1%
2%
6%
2%
3%
Mackay urban
Townsville
28%
26%
9%
10%
23%
24%
27%
26%
13%
14%
Mackay urban
Townsville
9
7.6
7.2
6.6
8.8
9.7
9%
11%
Education
Shopping/
personal
1%
2%
7.8
9.9
Public transport
19
12.9
4.7
3.4
Cycle
Walk
14.3
1.9
3.4
4.3
3.7
3
4.3
0.8
0.9
1.0
1.1
0.8
1.2
Bundaberg rural
Bundaberg urban
Greater Brisbane
Sunshine Coast
Mackay urban
Townsville
3.4
3.6
3.3
3.4
3.7
3.6
Average daily trip rate
(per person per weekday)
Daily trip rate
* Graphs may not add to exactly 100% in some cases due to rounding off of figures.
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