​Thembisa Shologu
Department of Roads and Transport today received the latest household travel survey for the province as part of fulfilling its legislative mandate requiring the province to continuously monitor and evaluate its transport system.
The Gauteng Household Travel Survey (GHTS) is a province-wide primary data aimed to collect and analyse information about household travel patterns. This has over the years functioned as critical inputs to strategic transport planning. 
Speaking at the launch event, MEC Jacob Mamabolo said that the outcome of the GHTS provided a vital understanding of general mobility patterns at a household level.
"Insights into travel experiences and perceptions, particularly around the public transport system, offer a decision-support tool for authorities and planners to maximise the effectiveness and targeting of mobility reform initiatives.
"The survey findings represent a critical input to promoting appropriate mobility research and planning practices as desired in transport legislation and policy with the sole aim of achieving better, sustainable integrated mobility infrastructure and systems," said MEC Mamabolo. 
The first provincial household travel survey in the post-apartheid dispensation was carried out in 2000, followed by a 2014 survey. The (GHTS) is necessary to support evidence-based decision-making.
Furthermore, the results of GHTS offer valuable insights for the development of adequate planning tools that can be used by industrialists, property, and software developers, as well as researchers and academic students.