Surveys, Awards & Challenges

Discover the sustainable travel activities, initiatives and challenges taking place in the region.

The Love to Ride Challenge

Love to Ride is an online cycling encouragement platform, with regular challenges, news and cycle specific information. Signing up and creating a workplace team is a great way to create an online community for the cyclists in your workplace. Once you have invited others to join you can message the group via the platform and use it to promote challenges, events and anything else relevant. During challenges you can compete against other workplaces, win fantastic prizes and encourage staff to cycle more and be healthier.

Love to Ride runs four challenges each year, with the main event in September.

Ride Anywhere week (March)
Bike Month (June)
Cycle September (September)
Winter Wheelers (December)

Join Love to Ride

Join Love to Ride Bristol
Go to Love to Ride Bristol

Bristol Walkfest

Month long Bristol Walking Festival and GoJauntly walking challenge.

More information:

Bristol Walkfest
Go to Bristol Walkfest
GoJauntly – Walking app
bringing you walks and events throughout the city of Bristol

The big Bristol travel challenge

The Big Bristol Travel Challenge is a great way to get active each July. Leave your car at home and walk, ride, run, skate, scoot or take public transport for more of your everyday journeys. Its free to take part and there’s lots of help and encouragement throughout the month. You can set goals, track your progress, win prizes and take part in the workplace challenge.

Join this Years July Travel Challenge
For anyone Living or working in Bristol and South Gloucestershire join us in this year’s Big Travel challenge.

Win prizes and rewards! Leave your car at home this July and walk, ride, run or scoot for more of your everyday journeys. The Big Bristol Travel Challenge is fun, free, and open to everyone. With help and support available, you can boost your health and wellbeing this summer. Take part on your own or team up with friends and colleagues.

Everyone who registers this year will also get free day bus ticket from first bus and vouchers for codes on Tier.

The first person to register from an organisation will be given the option to register their organisation and create a team. Staff within an organisation can compete between teams or as an individual. There will then be individual leader board or you can see where your organisation sits

Travel Challenge website
Join the challenge

Travel to Work Survey

The Travel to Work Survey takes place each year in March for 2 weeks, and runs across the West of England. We have over 15,000 people take part each year which helps us to build a robust dataset of how people are travelling across the region

Employers use the results to support their site Travel Plan and also to create business cases for improved or additional facilities to support staff such as new cycle storage or Electric Vehicle (EV) charging points.

All employers who participate and receive over 30 responses receive an individual report along with raw data and this is also the case for each employer’s site with over 30 responses.
The four West of England councils along with the West of England Combined Authority use this data for planning future transport and housing needs.

Reports are created for the West of England along with each local authority and reports based on locations.

Each authority’s Business Engagement and Economic Development Teams use the data from the survey to work with employers and understand how they can support them and transport issues affecting staff travel.