Research Project “Mobilitätsbefragung Würzburg 2023”
For the mobility Survey “Mobilitätsbefragung Würzburg 2023”, the Chair of Quantitative Methods of Empirical Social Research of the Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg, in cooperation with the City of Würzburg, is surveying the citizens of Würzburg on their mobility behaviour.
The purpose of the study is to gather information on the mobility behaviour of Würzburg’s residents, including researching what means of transport are currently used for what journeys and what mobility services still need improvement. A postal survey of 8,000 households will be conducted starting in the spring of 2023; the households will be randomly selected using the register of residents and participants will be informed in advance by post. Using a purpose-built questionnaire, each household member will be invited to provide information on their own household, and on all trips made on a given date. The reference date, specified in the covering letter, will be a mid-week working day outside of vacation time.
The results have many benefits for society and science, including...
... an evidence-based redrafting of the Würzburg traffic development plan.
... new scientific findings on the use of transport.
... The sustainable provision of the data in a de facto anonymised form within the framework of the FAIR principles – “Findable”, “Accessible”, “Interoperable”, “Reusable” via GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. This enables the reuse of the data for academic research and teaching in strict compliance with the existing data protection guidelines, which means that your contribution can be optimally used.
This website outlines the key points of the survey and answers some of the most frequently-asked questions. For further questions, we are available via the contact channels in the Contact and Organisation section.
FAQ
Yes, we would be very happy to! You can still return your completed questionnaire to us until the end of June. If you can't remember your journeys on the given reference date, you can choose a new reference date (see questionnaire part 3). We look forward to your feedback and thank you very much for your commitment and time
The survey is a cooperation project between the Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg and the City of Würzburg.
If you’ve been selected to participate, you will receive a pre-notification by post specifying the reference date. A paper questionnaire will be issued separately. Please make a note of all travels you and all your household members make on the survey date and complete the paper questionnaire together with all other members of your household.
Your address was drawn at random from the register of residents.
If you have been selected you will receive a pre-notification by post advising you of your reference date. A paper questionnaire will be sent separately. Please make a note of all travels you and your household members make on the specified survey date and complete the paper questionnaire together with the other members of your household. A prepaid envelope is enclosed with the questionnaire, which you can use to return the completed questionnaire to us free of charge.
A household consists of all those in the house who live and work together. Anyone who lives alone or manages alone forms a household of their own. Shared flats (WGs) therefore only form their own household if they manage the household jointly (e.g. shopping).
Participation in the survey is voluntary and non-participation has no negative consequences for you. However, as you are representing many other households in Würzburg, we would greatly appreciate your input!
No. We will pay for the return. To return the completed questionnaire, simply use the enclosed return envelope and drop it into a postbox. Alternatively, you can drop the return envelopes directly into the postboxes at university locations Sanderring 2 or Wittelsbacherplatz 1.
We ask all household members to fill in the questionnaire. For additional questionnaires, you can contact us and we will gladly send additional questionnaires. Alternatively simply visit the download section of this site to download and print the required number of extra copies.
You will find your reference date on the pre-notification letter that you received a few days before the questionnaire and also on the covering letter you received with the questionnaire itself.
If your reference date has already passed, if you no longer remember the routes on the reference date, or if you no longer have the covering letters, please enter a new reference date on the route sheets. This should be a mid-week working day (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday), excluding days immediately before or after public holidays. Possible alternative reference dates in the survey period are:
- Tuesday, 16.05.2023
- Tuesday, 23.05.2023
- Wednesday, 24.05.2023
- Thursday, 25.05.2023
- Wednesday, 31.05.2023
- Thursday, 01.06.2023
If your reference date has already passed, if you no longer remember the routes on the reference date, or if you no longer have the covering letters, please enter a new reference date on the route sheets. This should be a mid-week working day (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday), excluding days immediately before or after public holidays. Possible alternative reference dates in the survey period are:
- Tuesday, 16.05.2023
- Tuesday, 23.05.2023
- Wednesday, 24.05.2023
- Thursday, 25.05.2023
- Wednesday, 31.05.2023
- Thursday, 01.06.2023
Even if you were not mobile on the specified reference date, we still ask you to complete the questionnaire! The information on people who did not travel on the reference date is also important for us.
If you need an English version of the questionnaire, please contact us.
We send the reminder postcards to all persons regardless of whether they have already participated or not. This is because we do not merge the questionnaire with the address files of the Residents' Registration Office (see data protection). This means that we cannot see who has already taken part and which person needs to be reminded. We apologise for sending unnecessary reminder postcards.
The evaluation of the data is carried out using statistical procedures summarised in groups. No conclusions are drawn from the data to individuals. The survey data and the address data are stored separately. We will handle your data with consideration and will comply with the current data protection guidelines in all respects! For more information see on our data protection page.
The objectives of the survey are:
- An evidence-based redrafting of the transport development plan.
- New scientific findings on the use of transport.
- The sustainable provision of the data in a de facto anonymised form within the framework of the FAIR principles – “Findable”, “Accessible”, “Interoperable”, “Reusable” via GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. This enables the reuse of the data for academic research and teaching in strict compliance with the existing data protection guidelines, which means that your contribution can be optimally used.
The results will be published on this website towards the end of the project. If you would like to receive the results report separately, please send an e-mail to WueMobil23Ergebnisse@uni-wuerzburg.de.
There are several ways to contact us – see the Contact and Organisation section of this site
