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Your address was randomly selected from residential addresses in the Central Register of Residents (Zentrales Melderegister; ZMR) and earmarked for the survey. This is done in compliance with Art. 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO). Your details are representative of people in similar living and residential situations in your city or municipality and are therefore very important for illustrating the mobility patterns of the Austrian population.

Anyone aged 6 and above living in your household can participate. Please discuss participation with your household members before the first survey. Their participation is also voluntary.

In a household survey, we ask you for information about everyone aged 6 and above living in your household. All household members who are willing to participate will then be surveyed in person. In addition to general questions about usual mobility habits, the interview will also ask for voluntary information about health-related mobility restrictions. After the first personal interview, participants will be given a specific reporting day on which all commutes will be recorded. To facilitate tracking, participants will be issued a smartphone for their reporting day, which will record the commutes on that day. Alternatively, you can also write down your commutes on a mobility sheet, which we will provide. After the reporting day, our interview team will retrieve the smartphone and discuss your commutes with you.

Names and residential addresses, as well as the data you provided in the second part of the survey regarding your commutes on the reporting day, will be stored separately from the other survey data and address files.

During the subsequent analysis of the data, the names of each participating household member will be deleted from the survey and route data. This means that the data set will be pseudonymised without any direct references to your person. Amongst other things, this pseudonymised data set with your visited destinations and routes will be used to create traffic models. The destinations will also be used to allocate additional geographical information from traffic planning. For example, this includes the distance to the nearest public transport stop.

For all further evaluations within the scope of this study or other scientific research projects, the existing indirect personal characteristics, such as your start and destination addresses, will be raised to a higher geographical level and amalgamated. This step anonymises your information and makes it impossible to identify individuals.

Information on personal characteristics such as your age, income or car ownership is used to ensure a statistically representative cross-section and to distinguish between the mobility of different population groups. The survey data will be used by the clients as well as for scientific purposes in compliance with additional data protection requirements. Information such as age, household size, income and car ownership is amalgamated into broader analytical categories for this purpose. This also prevents any conclusions being drawn about your person.

Any processing of personal data—including for scientific research purposes—requires a legal basis as defined in Article 6 of the DSGVO, which is established based on specific measures taken by the clients (e.g. matters relating to transport and road safety). The legal bases of Article 9(2) DSGVO are considered when it comes to processing special categories of personal data for archiving purposes in the public interest, for scientific and historical research purposes, as well as for statistical purposes.