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Table 2 Travel to work, and access to motor vehicles, for the four cities

From: Increasing active travel: aims, methods and baseline measures of a quasi-experimental study

 

New Plymouth

Hastings

Intervention cities (weighted average)

Whanganui

Masterton

Control cities (weighted average)

New Zealand

Walked or jogged (%)

5.3

4.0

4.6

5.3

5.2

5.3

5.3

Cycled (%)

2.0

2.7

2.4

3.3

2.8

3.1

1.9

Public bus (%)

0.4

0.3

0.3

0.3

0.3

0.3

3.0

Households with access to 2 or more motor vehicles (%)

51.8

55.7

53.8

44.0

49.2

45.8

54.1

  1. Sources: Statistics New Zealand. 2006 Census data.