Luxmobil 2025 - Cross-border commuters: Mobility survey
A mobility survey: why?
The Ministry of Mobility and Public Works (MMTP) is launching a major survey of the daily mobility of Luxembourg residents and cross-border commuters from 14 January 2025. This initiative is part of a wider framework of cross-border surveys, including one in northern Lorraine in France (Enquête de mobilité sur le nord lorrain), the MID (Mobilität in Deutschland) survey in Germany and a forthcoming survey in Belgium.
The data collected in this way will make it possible to:
- prepare the next national mobility plan (PNM) with up-to-date demand data;
- help decision-makers make informed choices;
- provide solutions to the travel problems encountered by the public;
- obtain an overall view of mobility behaviour over a very wide area;
- assess the impact of transport policies;
- improve understanding of changes in behaviour (COVID, teleworking, cycling, etc.);
- provide input for multimodal traffic models;
- provide input for environmental audits.
A mobility survey: how and what?
The survey method is based on several principles that allow for comparison of results over time and with neighboring areas. The resident survey, conducted between January and June 2025, recorded the travel habits of 8,000 residents representative of the Luxembourg population.
Luxmobil 2025 now focuses on Belgian and German cross-border commuters according to the following principles:
- selection of 1,120 Belgian and 1,120 German cross-border commuters, representative of cross-border commuters on both sides;
- only those with an invitation letter are eligible to participate;
- the survey is conducted exclusively by telephone by ILRES;
- the interview lasts approximately 20 minutes;
- the questionnaire covers the trips undertaken the previous day and is described in great detail;
- the questions cover all modes of transport: walking, public transport, bicycles, private cars, etc.
A mobility survey: important information
ILRES will never ask:
- your national registration number (matricule national);
- your bank details;
- your passwords;
- to visit you at home;
- to enter your personal details by clicking on a link via SMS or e-mail;
- to make a payment.
A mobility survey: when?
September 2024 - April 2025:
- Conducting surveys on French cross-border commuters by the French authorities.
January 2025 - June 2025:
- Conducting surveys on Luxembourg residents by the ILRES service provider.
September 2025 - December 2025:
- Conducting surveys on German and Belgian cross-border commuters by the ILRES service provider.
From spring 2026:
Communication of first results.
A mobility survey: technical support
The MMTP, in its capacity as project manager for the survey, is assisted by two technical partners who are involved throughout the survey and who support the MMTP at every stage: design, preparation, survey follow-up, processing, etc.:
- CEREMA (Centre d’études et d’expertise sur les risques, l’environnement, la mobilité et l’aménagement);
- LISER (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research).
A mobility survey: the information notice
Download the information notice about the mobility survey for cross-border commuters below under "For more information".
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