{"id":373280,"date":"2026-10-06T17:24:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T11:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=373280"},"modified":"2026-10-06T17:24:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T11:54:39","slug":"national-household-travel-survey-nhts-2025-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/national-household-travel-survey-nhts-2025-26\/","title":{"rendered":"National Household Travel Survey (NHTS), 2025\u201326"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-green\">\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> The NSO has released key indicators and findings of the first-ever all-India National Household Travel Survey through a Factsheet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\">About National Household Travel Survey (NHTS), 2025\u201326<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_373286\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-373286\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-373286\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Source-Udaipur-Times.jpg?resize=300%2C159&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"National Household Travel Survey (NHTS), 2025\u201326\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Source-Udaipur-Times.jpg?resize=300%2C159&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Source-Udaipur-Times.jpg?resize=1024%2C544&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Source-Udaipur-Times.jpg?resize=768%2C408&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Source-Udaipur-Times.jpg?w=1536&amp;ssl=1 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-373286\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; Udaipur Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Conducted by:<\/strong> It was conducted by the National Statistics Office<strong> (NSO)<\/strong> under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation<strong> (MoSPI).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Duration:<\/strong> It was conducted <strong>from July 2025 to June 2026.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>inaugural edition<\/strong> of this survey.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Survey Coverage: <\/strong>The survey <strong>covered rural and urban areas across the country.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>For the purpose of the survey, <strong>a trip is defined<\/strong> as <strong>travel covering a distance of more than 1 km.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It collected information from <strong>over 4.9 lakh households and more than 20 lakh persons.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aim:<\/strong> Its primary <strong>aim<\/strong> is to <strong>generate data-driven insights into domestic travel to support regional transport planning, infrastructure development and evidence-based policy formulation.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Key Highlights:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Four Central Aspects:<\/strong> The survey findings <strong>focus on four central<\/strong> aspects of travel &#8211;\n<ul>\n<li>Mobility<\/li>\n<li>Duration and peak hours<\/li>\n<li>Expenditure involved<\/li>\n<li>Overnight and non-work travel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mobility:<\/strong> <strong>Two-wheelers are the predominant mode of transport<\/strong> for commuting to fixed workplaces, <strong>accounting for 42.6% of workers.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Duration:<\/strong> Around <strong>87.6% of students reach educational institutions within 30 minutes,<\/strong> while <strong>83.4% of workers reach their fixed workplaces within 30 minutes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Expenditure:<\/strong> The average <strong>monthly expenditure on commuting to a fixed workplace is \u20b9785 per worker,<\/strong> with <strong>urban workers spending \u20b91,044<\/strong> and <strong>rural workers \u20b9612.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Overnight and Non-work Travel:<\/strong> <strong>Buses<\/strong> are the predominant <strong>mode for overnight trips<\/strong>, which are primarily undertaken<strong> for social and religious purposes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The NSO has released key indicators and findings of the first-ever all-India National Household Travel Survey through a Factsheet. About National Household Travel Survey (NHTS), 2025\u201326 Conducted by: It was conducted by the National Statistics Office (NSO) under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI). Duration: It was conducted from July 2025 to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/national-household-travel-survey-nhts-2025-26\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">National Household Travel Survey (NHTS), 2025\u201326<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10401,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,1305,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-373280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-index-reports-bodies","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}