For the development of appropriate policy measures and for targeted investments, transport policy and planning depends on reliable and up-to-date information regarding the choice and use of transport. Federal and state statistical offices provide a wide range of data, such as road haulage and vehicle stock. However, the mobility of private households is not covered by official statistics. In this respect, the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) relies on complementary, own surveys to fulfil its tasks.
In order to minimize the burden on citizens, companies and the financial budget, a building block system of complementary representative surveys was developed. The central building blocks for private mobility are the surveys
“Mobility in Germany” (MiD) as well as
“German Mobility Panel” (MOP).
At the federal level, the findings of these surveys are an indispensable basis for transport policy, transport forecasts and federal transport route planning.
The German Mobility Panel has been running annually since 1994.
The services include:
WP 1: Fixed Line Sample _Recruitment and Survey
WP 2: Mobile Sample _Recruitment and Survey
WP3: Online Questionnaire for the Internet and Mobile Devices
WP4: Preparation and Transfer of Data
WP 5: (Demand Item): Supplements to Selected Special Topics
WP 6: Voting Conversations
The benefits for a cohort (cohort 2021) are advertised for a term of three survey years (survey years of everyday mobility 2021_2023 and passenger car travel performance and fuel consumption 2022_2024).
The details can be found in the electronic tender documents.
The German Mobility Panel is a nationwide representative survey of private households on everyday mobility as well as car performance and fuel consumption (see www.mobilitaetspanel.de). It includes a rotating panel sample of three cohorts of approximately the same strength, each of which remains in the panel for three years. Each year, one of the cohorts leaves the panel at the end of the 3rd survey year and is replaced by a new one. The households and people surveyed record their mobility in a diary for a week.
Households with at least one car in the sample should also keep a tank book or loading book for eight weeks. With this approach, the MOP particularly enables the identification of trends and behavioral changes in mobility. Because each budget takes part in the survey for three years, analyses of individual behavioral changes are also possible _, for example, responses to changed fuel prices _. The interaction with MiD as a large cross-sectional survey (cf. www.mobilitaet-in-deutschland.de) provides a reliable basis for transport policy and transport planning decisions.
The aim of this task is to record the mobility of a survey cohort over three years and to make the collected data available to the institute for content-related plausibility responsible for scientific supervision and analysis. This institute will feed the pseudonymized data into the time series of the mobility panel. The data sets of the mobility panel, which are anonymized in accordance with data protection regulations, are made available to third parties via the transport clearing office in the German Luft_ und Aerospace Center (DLR) in accordance with the BMVI's data conditions.
To ensure the consistency of the longitudinal survey, the previous survey design will be continued for a cohort to the same extent as from the 2013 cohort. The supplemented survey modules and implemented adjustments to changed requirements and framework conditions should be retained:
in order to increase the resilience or differentiation possibilities of the analyses, the increased number of cases of the net sample from cohort 2013 is to be maintained,
to improve representativity, the fixed network sample will continue to be supplemented by a mobile phone sample and an online questionnaire offered,
for household electric vehicles (cars), a charging book is to be offered as an alternative to the tank book.
With this approach, BMVI is continuing the implementation of recommendations from the Road and Transport Research Association (FGSV), an expert workshop and expertise from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), which was previously commissioned with scientific evaluation.
The details can be found in the electronic tender documents.