Travel survey
Transport Analysis is responsible for travel surveys. The Swedish National Travel survey (RVU Sweden) addresses people's daily travel, the dates and times when they travel, the modes of transport used, and the purposes of the trips.
After several years of increase, the number of journeys by public transport has now remained unchanged
The number of journeys by public transport remained at the same level in 2025 as in 2024. This is the first year since the start of the pandemic that public transport has not shown any increase.
In Sweden, 3.8 billion journeys were made in 2025, which is a decrease of 1.9 percent compared to 2024. The changes for individual modes of travel were relatively small and all were within the margin of error. The largest change was that travel by foot increased by 12 percent, to roughly the same level as in 2023. Travel by car decreased by 5 percent and travel by bicycle decreased by 1 percent, while travel by public transport remained at the same level as in 2024.
The Statistics in Brief
Since 2019, a travel survey has been conducted and presented in annual reports. The survey covers Sweden's population aged 6–84 years and is carried out as a combined paper and web questionnaire. The sample is stratified by residential county, age group, and gender. The sample for 2025 includes approximately 14,500 people in Sweden.
Data on travel behaviour provide important background information for formulating national and regional transport policy, the infrastructure development and the range of transport services offered, traffic safety efforts, and research and development concerning people's travel and communication patterns.
Transport Analysis first began collecting data from national travel behaviour surveys under the auspices of the Swedish Institute for Transport and Communications Analysis (SIKA) as Riks-RVU during the period 1994–1998, then in RES 1991–2001 and RES 2005–2006.
The annual reports were published for Riks-RVU and RES during the period 1994–2001, and they have issued been in electronic form as of RES 1999. RES 2005–2006 is published both electronically and in hardcopy form. Collections of tables from RVU Sweden are published annually in electronic form. Statistics from RVU Sweden will also be published in other analyses that Transport Analysis conducts.
Publications
Transport Analysis is appointed by the government to be responsible for official statistics in the areas of transport and communications.
There is a distinction in Sweden between official statistics and other public statistics. Official statistics are statistics that are produced according to the statistical act and ordinance and published as required by official regulations.
