The University conducts regular surveys of both staff and student travel to monitor progress towards travel plan targets and to help identify priorities for action and investment.
We’re currently conducting our 2025 Staff and Student Travel Survey. University of Bristol staff and students can have your say by completing the survey via this link: University of Bristol - 2025 Staff and Student Travel Survey. The survey is open until midnight, Wednesday 3 December. Some 2025 Staff and Student Travel Survey FAQs are available or contact transport-plan@bristol.ac.uk.
It should be noted that as a result of methodological changes to the travel survey and analysis (inclusion of updated travel options and weighting of data to better represent commuting patterns of part-time staff), the complete data sets before and after 2007 are not wholly comparable, but the overall trends for the main travel modes may be considered robust.
During the pandemic, the University did not conduct a comprehensive staff travel survey, however it did continue to participate in the Travelwest Travel to Work survey. This data can be viewed below.
The November 2023 Staff and Student Travel Survey: Key findings (PDF, 1,069kB) report is has been compiled and available to view.
The annual Travel to Work survey takes place in March and covers employer organisations in Bristol, Bath & North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
2025 WEST Travel to Work Survey (PDF, 257kB)
2024 WEST Travel to Work Survey (PDF, 193kB)
2023 Travelwest Travel to Work Survey (PDF, 219kB)
2022 Travelwest Travel to Work survey (PDF, 273kB)
2021 Travelwest Travel to Work survey (PDF, 387kB)
2020 Travelwest Travel to Work survey (PDF, 214kB)
2019 Travelwest Travel to Work survey (PDF, 233kB)
2017 Travelwest Travel to Work survey (PDF, 292kB)
2016 Travelwest Travel to Work survey (PDF, 279kB)
Please note that 'working from home' has only been measured in this survey since 2022.
