Analysis of HTS data to inform Wellington Region VKT reduction strategy

Apr. 2023 - Oct. 2023

I derived evidence-based insights to inform Wellington’s vehicle kilometres travelled (VKT) reduction strategy. Greater Wellington Regional Council (GWRC) were preparing a VKT, and emissions, reduction strategy for Wellington. Decision makers at the council needed a Wellington-specific evidence base to understand the complexities of the task, and to guide and inform the choices they make. I delivered this evidence-base. I investigated the travel behaviours of Wellingtonians, with a special focus on VKT. I used Python and Jupyter Notebooks - with libraries pandas, geopandas, shapely, datetime, matplotlib, and seaborn - to clean, wrangle, combine, analyse, and visualise, the New Zealand (NZ) Ministry of Transport (MOT)’s complex Household Travel Survey (HTS) datasets.