Privacy Statement

The Transportation Tomorrow Survey team is dedicated to protecting the privacy of its participants.

The purpose of the survey is to help the Ontario Ministry of Transportation and municipal partner agencies identify travel patterns in the Greater Golden Horseshoe and surrounding area of Ontario, in accordance with the Ministry's transportation planning and road safety mandate under provincial legislation.

Canadian-based research firm R.A. Malatest & Associates Ltd. is conducting the survey data collection under the direction of the Ontario Ministry of Transportation and the University of Toronto and with the highest standards of the protection of privacy and confidentiality. Malatest's privacy policy can be found at www.malatest.com/privacy-policy/

What information do we collect?

• The survey asks questions about characteristics of your household (e.g. dwelling type, household size), the demographics of household members (e.g. age, gender, employment status), workplace locations, schools attended, and details of trips taken by household members in one day, including trip destination, purpose, time of travel, and mode of transportation
• The survey records information on when you completed the survey and how you completed the survey (online or over the phone).
• We also ask you to provide your first name and phone number or email address so that we may follow up with you in case we need to clarify any of your survey answers. Your contact information will never be used for any other purpose without your permission.

How do we use the information collected?

Responses must be collected first in identifiable form for survey validation purposes, but will then have all identifiers securely removed before responses are received by the Ministry or the project partner agencies. Identifying information will never be held by the Ministry at any time. Names, addresses, and phone numbers are destroyed at the conclusion of the survey's data collection phase, unless you explicitly agree to participate in future transportation-related research.

The data will be aggregated (combined with the responses of other participants) when analysed to produce reports on travel patterns. Statistics generated from the data will include average daily trip rates and mode shares for residents, reported by geographies (e.g., by planning district, municipality, or region). Previous reports can be found here: http://dmg.utoronto.ca/transportation-tomorrow-survey/tts-reports. The Ministry and the project partners will also analyse the data to develop transportation models, track trends in average travel patterns, and conduct further analysis to support transportation planning and decision-making.

With whom do we share or disclose this information?

Access to the anonymous version of the data (stripped of identifying information and location coordinates) will be managed by the University of Toronto's Data Management Group (DMG). The DMG will provide controlled access to this anonymous data set to municipal agencies and other partners on this project (listed further below). Any information obtained from participating households and held by the Ministry or the partner agencies will be processed, stored, and used in a form that does not permit any particular household or individual to be identified.

Who can you contact for further information?

For more information, please contact 1-877-216-7786 (toll free), info@tts2022.ca or visit the project website at tts2022.ca. If you have any further questions about the use of the data, the Ministry of Transportation can be contacted by e-mail at mtoinfo@ontario.ca or by telephone at 1-800-268-4686.

Agencies and municipalities that have partnered on this survey are listed below:

City of Barrie		www.barrie.ca
City of Brantford		www.brantford.ca/en/index.aspx
City of Guelph		www.guelph.ca
City of Hamilton		www.hamilton.ca
City of Peterborough		www.peterborough.ca/en/index.aspx
City of Toronto		www.toronto.ca
City of Orillia		www.orillia.ca
County of Brant		www.brant.ca
County of Dufferin		www.dufferincounty.ca
County of Grey		www.grey.ca
County of Northumberland		www.northumberland.ca
County of Peterborough		www.county.peterborough.on.ca
County of Simcoe		www.simcoe.ca
County of Wellington		www.wellington.ca
Metrolinx/GO Transit		www.metrolinx.com
Ontario Ministry of Transportation		www.ontario.ca/page/ministry-transportation
Regional Municipality of Durham		www.durham.ca
Regional Municipality of Halton		www.halton.ca
Regional Municipality of Niagara		www.niagararegion.ca
Regional Municipality of Peel		www.peelregion.ca
Regional Municipality of Waterloo		www.regionofwaterloo.ca
Regional Municipality of York		www.york.ca
Toronto Transit Commission (TTC)		www.ttc.ca
Town of Orangeville		www.orangeville.ca
Town of the Blue Mountains		www.thebluemountains.ca

Please visit tts2022.ca for further information about this research study.

It is always best to be as precise as possible when searching for an address. The specific street address including City or Municipality will produce the best results.

Sometimes Google will describe the location a bit differently. This is okay if the marker is in the right place. Please look at the map to confirm that the marker is in the right place.

Once a marker appears on the map, you may select and drag it to a new place on the map. To centre the map at any time, click the home button in the top right corner of the map.

Once the map shows the correct location, click Confirm. After the location is saved, to change it you need to click Search Again.

Are you having problems finding your address on the map? If the Google description or address is slightly different than you think it should be, you can still proceed as long as you are very sure the marker is at the correct location you had in mind.

La version française de l'enquête en ligne est temporairement indisponible.. Pour remplir l'enquête en anglais, veuillez appeler 1-877-216-7786 ou envoyer un courriel á info@tts2022.ca.
The French version of the online survey is temporarily unavailable. To complete the survey in English, please call 1-877-216-7786 or email info@tts2022.ca.

What is a trip? A trip is a one-way journey from one location to a destination for a single purpose. A single trip may include more than one mode of travel, such as car and transit (Kiss & Ride or Park & Ride).

• It is important to report all trips, even for a short distance, on foot for instance.
• Report all trips, whether made by walking, car, truck, bicycle, transit, or any other mode of travel.
• If you used two modes of transportation to travel to your destination, please select the one you used to travel the longest distance. For example, if you go to work by cycling 10 minutes to the train station and then take the train for 30 minutes, list the train as your main mode of transportation.
• The return portion of a journey is considered a separate trip.
• Do not report stops along the way if they are incidental to the main trip purpose, such as buying gas or getting a drive-through coffee on the way to work, unless they involve a significant detour or time delay (i.e. more than 15 minutes).
• Report any picking up or dropping off of a passenger as a separate trip. For example, if you drop someone off at their school on your way to work, report the school you dropped them off at, with a purpose of 'drop off a passenger'; The next trip you report will be from their school to your workplace, with a purpose of 'work'.
• Report your trips for business meetings and work-related purposes.
• For trips requiring air travel, please treat the trip to or from the airport as a separate trip from the trip on the airplane.
• Do not report walking the dog with no destination. (However, report the trip if you walk the dog to a specific destination at which you will spend more than 15 minutes, such as a park.).
• Do not report going for a jog in the neighbourhood with no destination. (However, if you jog to work, please report jogging to work as a trip to work).
• Do not report moving around between classes on campus or within the same building complex

Please visit tts2022.ca for further information about this research study.

We will ask you where you travelled to. Please try to describe locations as precisely as possible, to the accuracy of street address. Use the Google Maps provided to search for a specific business or place, or double click on the map to set a ‘pushpin’ marker. You can drag the marker to the exact location. If possible, try to avoid placing markers at intersections. Drag them to the actual destination you travelled to.

If are a commercial driver (bus driver, taxi driver, courier, travelling salesman): You do not have to tell us about all the work trips you made for commercial deliveries, or while driving a taxi or bus. But please report the following:

• Your first trip to where you started your work day (terminal, office) or your first delivery or stopping point if you started your delivery/work schedule directly from home.
• Your final work-related stopping point if it is different from the one above.
• A return trip to your home or other non-work related location at the end of your work day.
• All personal trips made outside of working hours by any mode of travel other than walking.

If you have entered all the trips for this household member, but do not see the continue button, please complete the following steps to complete the trip record:

• On the summary page for yourself or the household member, select "Continue entering trips".
• On the trips page select "Did not take another trip" to close off that person's trip section.
• If you require further assistance, please call 1-877-216-7786 (toll-free) between 9:00 am and 9:00 pm or email info@tts2022.ca.

As you complete each trip record, you will be prompted to enter your next trip on the page that asks Where did you go next? When you have finished entering all the trips you took on your travel day, please select Did not take another trip when asked Where did you go next. This will complete the trips section for that household member. Once the trip section has been completed for all members of your household, you will see the option to continue to the final questions of the survey and submit your data. You can also add additional trips or edit your previously entered trips on the Trip Summary Page. If you are adding additional trips from the Trip Summary Page, please remember to select Did not take another trip to update your survey record. If you require further assistance, please call 1-877-216-7786 (toll-free) between 9:00 am and 9:00 pm or email info@tts2022.ca.