Citywide Mobility Survey
NYC DOT conducts a household travel survey called the Citywide Mobility Survey (CMS) to assess the travel behavior, preferences, and attitudes of New York City residents. The continuity of the survey allows us to track changes over time and analyze how factors such as COVID-19 have affected travel by New York City residents. NYC DOT takes a number of steps to ensure that the survey captures as representative a cross-section of New Yorkers as possible.
2024 Citywide Mobility Survey
NYC DOT conducted the 2024 Citywide Mobility Survey between May 6 and June 22, 2024. You can access the survey data on Open Data or through the links below:
- 2024 CMS Summary report (pdf) – Discover key results of the survey.
- Complete dataset – For custom analysis, access the complete dataset, questionnaire, user guide, and the survey zone shapefile:
- 2024 Tables via NYC Open Data
- 2024 Citywide Mobility Survey Questionnaire (pdf)
- 2024 Citywide Mobility Survey User Guide (pdf)
- The User Guide is based on the 2024 CMS methodology; however, the same approach applies to both the 2022 and 2019 CMS surveys, which use updated methods and weights consistent with this framework. Note that because of the timing of the American Community Survey (ACS) data release, the 2024 CMS targeted the 2023 ACS, while the 2022 and 2019 surveys targeted the ACS data corresponding to their respective reference years.
- Survey Zones Shapefile via NYC Open Data
Citywide Mobility Survey Archive
Surveys were also conducted in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2022. The 2017 and 2018 surveys consisted of an online or phone survey of roughly 3,000 New York City residents, who provided details of one day of travel. In the 2019 and 2022 surveys, as with the 2024 survey, participants could choose to download a mobile app and provide up to seven days of travel information. With all surveys, locations and identifying information have been removed from the public data sets to protect the privacy of participants.
2022 Citywide Mobility Survey
- 2022 CMS Summary report (pdf) – Discover key results of the survey.
- Complete dataset – For custom analysis, refer to the 2024 User Guide above, and access the complete dataset, questionnaire, and the survey zone shapefile:
2020 Citywide Mobility Survey: Transportation Impacts of COVID-19
In 2020, NYC DOT conducted surveys in the spring, summer and fall to understand how New Yorkers’ travel choices and preferences were affected by COVID-19. These surveys, which did not include a trip diary component, were distributed to participants in the 2019 survey who had agreed to be re-contacted.
October 2020 Citywide Mobility Survey Report (pdf) October 2020 Citywide Mobility Survey Data via NYC Open Data July 2020 Citywide Mobility Survey Report (pdf) July 2020 Citywide Mobility Survey Data via NYC Open Data May 2020 Citywide Mobility Survey Report (pdf) May 2020 Citywide Mobility Survey Data via NYC Open Data
2019 Citywide Mobility Survey
2019 Citywide Mobility Survey Report (pdf) 2019 Tables via NYC Open Data
2018 Citywide Mobility Survey
2018 Citywide Mobility Survey Report (pdf) 2018 Tables via NYC Open Data
2017 Citywide Mobility Survey
2017 Citywide Mobility Survey Report (pdf) 2017 Tables via NYC Open Data