Evidence exists that, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, travel behaviour was relatively stable, once one accounts for "conditioning factors" such as urban growth, labour force changes, etc. Expectations are that the pandemic disrupted this stable behaviour, creating a "new normal" going forward. This paper presents an investigation of this hypothesis by comparing travel behaviour as captured in two large-sample household travel surveys conducted in the GGH: the 2016 and 2022/23 Transportation Tomorrow Surveys (TTS). 2016 was the last pre-pandemic TTS. Approximately 70% of the post-pandemic survey was gathered in fall, 2022, while 30% was gathered in spring, 2023. While travel behaviour may not have fully stabilized, the 2022/23 TTS should provide clear indications of the general nature of regional post-pandemic travel behaviour. The analysis compares a range of metrics: out-of-home activity generation by purpose; activity start times and durations; trip mode choices; tour characteristics. Hypotheses tested include whether changes have occurred in: work-from-home (WfH) rates, transit and active (walk/bike) mode shares, off-peak travel patterns and household distributions in the region.
