Travel to Work Survey

The Annual Travel to Work Survey takes place over a 2-week period each March, across Bath & North East Somerset, Bristol, and South Gloucestershire.

The 2026 Travel to Work Survey launches on Monday 9 March and will remain open until Sunday 22 March.

Registration for the 2026 Travel to Work Survey has now closed.

January 2026 webinar

We ran a webinar in January 2026 for organisations to find out more about the survey and ask questions.

Watch the webinar
Download the webinar presentation Download pdf PDF approximately 3.32 M

Background information

The survey has been running for over 15 years and in 2025 more than 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 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.

  • Bath & North East Somerset, Bristol City and South Gloucestershire Councils, along with the West of England Mayoral 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.

More information

If you want to find out more about the Travel to Work Survey, please contact the Local Authority where your main office is based in the West of England.

Bristol City Council

Business Engagement Team

Bath & North East Somerset Council

South Gloucestershire Council

Travel Planning