Technical inspection data for private cars - international survey

This survey is part of the UK MOT project (http://www.motproject.net) about the data collected through the periodic technical inspection (PTI) regime in Britain for cars and light goods vehicles.

The project is looking at the potential to use the data to investigate issues relating to car ownership and use, energy consumption, and vehicle emissions contributing to climate change and air pollution.

Various analytical techniques have been developed, and we are now interested in understanding whether such techniques could be usable in other countries.

In particular, we are keen to understand:

• whether odometer mileage readings are collected;
• whether data are held in a central computerised form;
• whether the home locations of the vehicle keepers are recorded; and
• how the data have been used for research. 

We would therefore be most grateful if you could complete this survey for your country (or state).

We are happy to share the outputs from this work - and will send you the main survey findings if you express an interest.

Practicalities

For reference, a pdf version of the survey is available to download here, and an editable Word version of the survey is available to download here.  

When completing the survey via this website, if you wish to leave the survey and return to it later, you need to:

• Click on 'Next page' to save any changes on the page that you have been working on (otherwise these will be lost).
• Then click on the 'Save and continue later' button. The survey system will request an email address, in order to send you a link for completing the rest of the survey later.
• You should receive the link shortly afterwards, from 'MOT project <noreply@smartsurvey.co.uk>'

Alternatively, you can complete the survey off-line and return it to scairns@trl.co.uk

If you encounter any technical problems, or have any other queries, please email:
scairns@trl.co.uk and kmillard@trl.co.uk.

(Please email both addresses at once to enable us to resolve your query as quickly as possible.)
 

Background project details

This work is led by the University of Leeds, working with the University of Bristol, the University of the West of England, TRL, UCL and the University of Aberdeen. It is funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (grant number EP/K000438/1), under the Research Councils UK Energy Programme and supported by the UK Department for Transport and the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change.