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.

Despite the COVID pandemic, the Travel to Work Survey ran as usual in 2021, with some tweaks. It was updated to reflect changes to how businesses are operating through the pandemic, allowing individuals to report when working from home. This could provide valuable data to businesses in terms or lessons learnt from the pandemic when comparing to future years’ data.

The survey will provide us with a better understanding of how businesses are operating during the pandemic. This will help us to:

• provide more tailored support to businesses
• influence our sustainable travel offers
• better inform transport infrastructure planning so that the network supports the current needs of businesses

The survey is wider than how the individual travels to work on that given day, for example we also ask questions on public transport and electric vehicles which will help us to understand how the pandemic may have changed people’s views on using these.