We want to hear about your daily transportation habits: Why do you travel? How do you travel? How far do you go? How much does it cost? Our goal is to get a complete picture of transportation patterns to better plan for future improvements in our community.

Your participation ensures that households like yours are fully represented in our regional transportation plans. (The gift card at the end helps too!) Technologies and the ways people travel are changing quickly, and we need your help to plan for the future.

Invited households were selected at random from across the Triangle region. Random sampling is an important part of making sure the survey represents all residents of the Triangle region.

This survey is sponsored by the North Carolina Department of Transportation, the Durham – Chapel Hill – Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization, the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization, and GoTriangle.

It takes about 10 minutes to complete part 1 and determine your next steps. Households that complete part 2 on the smartphone app (rMove) will take about 5 minutes per day for seven days to report their travel. Households that complete part 2 online or by calling in will take about 10 minutes to report their travel for one day.

You will receive a gift card once all members of your household have completed the two-part survey. Households that complete the second part of the survey on the smartphone app (rMove) will receive one $20 gift card per adult (e.g., a household with two adults receives $40). Households that complete both parts online or by calling in will receive a single $10 gift card.

Any amount of travel (including no travel) will help us build an accurate picture of how, when, and why people make trips in the region (or why they don’t make trips). Don't forget that short trips, such as walking the dog or going for a jog, count too.

That’s no problem – we still encourage you to participate. We’ll ask about how your travel has changed over the past year and how you think you’ll travel in the future.

rMove collects travel and trip information from invited participants. Once it is installed on your phone, rMove will log your travel. A few minutes after you finish a trip, rMove will ask you about the details of your trip. The app will also ask a few questions at the end of each day. You can answer these surveys any time during the day, but please do not answer them while driving! Participants who use rMove should keep their phones with them any time they travel during their survey period.

A trip is any time you travel 100 feet or farther and stop at a new location for a purpose. Even if you stop briefly for gas, at an ATM, or to drop a child off at school, travel to that stop counts as one trip, and travel from that stop to another destination is a separate trip. There is always a purpose (or even multiple purposes) for making a trip – to conduct activities at the destination.

If you travel for 100 feet or farther but return to the same place (such as a recreational jog or bike ride), this counts as two trips: from the starting location to the furthest point you reach, and the reverse trip back.

Here are some example trips:

• Drive to work
• Drop your child off at school
• Walk the dog to the park and back home (counts as two trips)
• Walk your child to a neighbor's home
• Bike to the grocery store
• Ride the bus to the bank
• Carpool to a meeting in Charlotte

Often, what we think of as one trip is actually two or more trips. For example, "I stopped to buy gas on my way home from work" counts as two trips because there was one trip from work to the gas station and another trip from the gas station to home.

We are committed to your privacy and we take it very seriously. Read our full privacy documentation and contact us if you have any questions.

This survey will help the North Carolina Department of Transportation and regional transportation agencies prioritize transportation and land-use improvements. For example, what role can transit, carpooling, and biking play in improving regional mobility? Where are transportation improvements needed to relieve congestion?