Big Commuter Count

Big Commuter Count 2011

The 2011 Commuter Count has been our biggest yet with a fantastic 11,196 people taking part! Thank you to everyone that joined this year's Count, which took place on Wednesday, October 5, 2011.

Overall commuter count results (pdf, 36 KB) are now available.

The next Commuter Count will be in October 2012.

Commuter Count 2012 - how employers can take part

All employers in the city are invited to take part in the Big Commuter Count which helps find out how people in Bristol travel to work. The Count is an online survey that takes only a couple of minutes to complete. Responses remain anonymous, so no individual employee can be identified from a completed survey. We collect all responses and send you the results. There is no charge for this service. The survey contains a drop down list of companies from which employees can select their employer; to receive your organisation's survey results you must join the Count to be included in this list.

If you would like your organisation to join the 2012 Count, or have any queries, please email city.transport@bristol.gov.uk or call 0117 903 6815.

What will I need to do?

• Nominate a contact person. This person will be emailed the web link, which needs to be forwarded on to all employees.
• Promote the survey to staff.

We will:

• Provide the web link to the survey with draft text explaining what respondents need to do.
• Collate all responses. You do not need to collect any responses as they are sent directly to our email account.
• Supply posters to help promote the survey.
• Email each organisation with their individual results.

What is a Travel Plan?

Travel Plans are packages of travel measures introduced at the workplace aimed at promoting more sustainable travel options. Recently, several of the companies taking part in Bristol's Big Commuter Count won awards for progress with their Travel Plan.

• AWP, Bristol Central, trialled an innovative zero petrol team experiment.  This involved a radical approach to the complete involvement of a whole team of case workers, doing the sort of work for which a car is usually regarded as essential. They have proved that the case workers can:
  
  • get to work actively and healthily
  • visit their clients actively, healthily and quickly maintaining the same visiting rates as before and
  • almost completely eliminate the use of petroleum fuelled vehicles.

• Lyons Davidson, introduced Green Friday.  All employees' desktop pages change to bright green and display a snapshot of the current week's Green Friday article which includes:
  
  • details of the amount of business miles travelled each month compared to previous month's
  • the amount of carbon released through work travel.

We can provide advice and support to employers developing Travel Plans. For more information, please ring 0117 903 7159.