What is a trip? A trip is a one-way journey from one location to a destination for a single purpose. A trip may include more than one mode of travel, such as walking and transit.

• It is important to report all trips taken for transportation (not recreation or leisure), even for a short distance, on foot for instance.
• If you stopped off on your way to somewhere else, such as to drop off a child at school or pick up a coffee, then that journey would be two trips. The return portion of a journey is also considered a separate trip.
• Report all trips, whether made by walking, car, truck, bicycle, transit or any other mode of travel.
• If you are employed, report your trips for business meetings and work-related purposes. Unless you are a commercial driver (see note below).
• If you are employed and work from more than one location in a given day (e.g., you make site visits), the journey to and from these locations would count as a trip.

What does NOT count as a trip? Here are some examples of activities you should not include:

• Walking the dog around the block and returning to the same place.
• Jogging around the neighbourhood and returning to the same place. (However, if you jog to work, please report jogging to work as a trip to work.)
• Walking between a parking spot and your destination (ie. At a shopping mall)
• Walking between classes on campus or within the same building complex, such as an office
• Travelling completely outside of the Okanagan region

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

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

How precise do locations need to be? 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 Map 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 your actual destination.
The confidentiality of any information collected is protected under the provisions of the Act. Any information obtained from each household is processed, stored, and used in a form that does not permit any particular household to be identified. Click here to see our Privacy Statement.

Travel by multiple modes of transportation:

• All transportation modes used for a single trip should be recorded. Please record the transportation modes used from first to last.
• If you used more than 3 modes of transportation, please record the additional mode(s) in the “other” specify category.