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

Travel to Work Survey

The Annual Travel to Work Survey takes place over a 2-week period each March, across Bristol, Bath & North East Somerset and South Gloucestershire. The 2025 Travel to Work Survey launches on Monday 3rd March and will remains open until Sunday 16th March. To register your organisation to take part please visit: //travelwest.info/registration2025 by Friday 31 January 2025.

We will be running a webinar in January for organisations to find out more about the survey and answer any questions. The webinar will be held on 3 separate dates (you only need to attend one):

Tuesday 14 January, 0830 to 0930
Wednesday 22 January, 1230 to 1330
Monday 27 January, 1600 to 1700

The survey has been running for over 10 years and in 2024 over 20,000 people completed the survey. This annual survey helps us to understand changes in commuting and working patterns and builds up a robust dataset of how people are travelling to work, across the region. It also provides an opportunity for employees to tell us about their travel choices, barriers to travel and provide wider feedback on travel and transport in the area. The survey is for all your staff, even if they don’t commute into the office regularly or if they work from home.

Organisations can use the results to support or help develop their site Travel Plan, monitor trends year-on-year and also create business cases for improved or additional facilities to support staff, such as new cycle storage, showering and changing facilities, or Electric Vehicle (EV) charging points.

All organisations that participate, and have over 30 responses, will receive an individual organisation report along with their raw anonymised data. Those organisations with multiple sites will also get a report for sites with over 30 responses.

Organisations can also add in up to 4 additional bespoke questions specific to their organisation to ask their staff.
Bristol City, Bath & North East Somerset and South Gloucestershire Councils, along with the West of England Combined Authority use this data for planning future transport infrastructure and services.

Reports are created for the West of England, each local authority area and smaller geographic areas like Filton, Bristol City Centre or Bath.

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