Travel surveys for business commuters

Last year in Vilnius travel surveys were carried out in multiple companies and business centres by Municipal Enterprise “Susisiekimo paslaugos” (Transport Services). It reached more than 5200 respondents: 3200 employees and 2000 students of the largest universities. The questionnaire includes questions regarding person’s commuting habits, e. g. transport mode used most often, travel time, work start and end times, home and work address, how many stops a person has in the morning (kindergarten etc.), as well as open questions e. g. what are the main problems travelling with certain travel mode etc.
This helps to get a more comprehensive image about how people are commuting and offer suggestions for the employer to help solve certain problems like lack of car parking, promote cycling to work by installing showers and bike racks, offer to consider different workday start time (e. g. not on peak hours).
During presentation, employees sometimes even get to know that there are showers in their business centre, which they noted as an argument for not cycling to work before. In a few other companies, during the similar presentation employees got to know that many of them live in the same area which later resulted in car-pooling organised by the employees themselves.