Travel surveys
The University conducts regular surveys of both staff and student travel to monitor progress towards sustainability goals and to help identify priorities for action and investment.
Travel survey findings - 2023
November 2023 Staff and Student Travel Survey: Key findings (PDF, 1,069kB)
Staff travel survey
The survey shows an overall trend of staff increasingly using methods like walking, bus and cycling to commute to the university, and in 2023 and large increase of working from home.
Changes to capturing data over time
The complete data sets before and after 2007 are not wholly comparable, because of methodological changes to the travel survey and analysis. Changes include updated travel options and weighting of data to better represent commuting patterns of part-time staff. However the overall trends for the main travel modes are 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.
Student travel survey
The survey shows an overall trend of students increasingly using methods like bus and train to commute to the university, and in 2023 and a decrease in working from home.
WEST Travel to Work Survey
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.
'Working from home' has only been measured in this survey since 2022.