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Employee Commute & Transportation Experience Survey

Measures how employees actually get to work — mode, duration, out-of-pocket cost, and parking — and how hybrid schedules and transit benefits shape those choices. An AI follow-up digs past the surface rating to uncover the specific cost or reliability tipping points that would change commute behavior, giving facilities and HR teams evidence for benefit and parking decisions.

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Sample questions

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15 questions · ~8 min
Q01
Message

Thanks for taking a few minutes to tell us about your commute! Your answers help us decide what to do about parking, transit benefits, and hybrid schedules. This should take about 8 minutes.

Q02
Multiple ChoiceRequired

Which mode of transportation do you use most often for your commute to work?

  • Personal vehicle (drive alone)
  • Carpool or rideshare
  • Public transit (bus, train, subway)
  • Bicycle
  • Walking
  • Motorcycle or scooter
  • Work from home (no commute)
Q03
NumberRequired

On a typical day you commute in, how many minutes does your one-way trip take?

Q04
Multiple ChoiceRequired

How many days per week do you currently commute into the office?

  • 0 days (fully remote)
  • 1 day
  • 2 days
  • 3 days
  • 4 days
  • 5 days
  • Varies week to week
Q05
Opinion ScaleRequired

How satisfied are you with your current commute overall?

Scale: 1 – 7
Min:Very dissatisfiedMax:Very satisfied
Q06
Point Allocation

Thinking about a typical month, how does your commute-related spending split across these categories? Percentages should add up to 100.

  • Fuel or vehicle costs
  • Parking fees
  • Public transit fares
  • Rideshare or taxi costs
  • Vehicle maintenance & insurance
  • Other commute costs
Allocate 100 points
Q07
Multiple Choice

Which best describes your parking situation at or near the office?

  • Free employer-provided parking
  • Paid, employer-subsidized parking
  • Paid parking (no subsidy)
  • Street parking
  • I don't drive to work
  • Not applicable — I work remotely
Q08
MatrixRequired

For each commute benefit below, how would you describe your use of it?

5 rows × 4 columns
  • Pre-tax commuter benefit
  • Employer transit subsidy
  • Bike or scooter reimbursement
  • Parking subsidy
  • Carpool or vanpool program
Columns: Not offered · Offered, but I don't use it · Offered, I use it occasionally · Offered, I use it regularly
Q09
AI Interview

Explore the respondent's actual commute experience in depth: what specifically drives their satisfaction or frustration (traffic, cost, reliability, safety), and how their in-office schedule has changed their commute cost or mode choice over time. If they flagged cost as a pain point, ask them to describe the specific tipping point where cost would change their behavior. If their commute mode changed recently, probe what triggered the switch and whether a benefit or policy change played a role.

Q10
Opinion ScaleRequired

How much did your commute factor into your decision to accept or stay in your current role?

Scale: 1 – 5
Min:Not a factor at allMax:A major factor
Q11
Multiple Choice

If your employer changed one thing about commute support, which would most likely get you to use a lower-emission option (walking, biking, transit, carpooling) more often?

  • Increased transit subsidy
  • Secure bike storage or showers
  • Flexible arrival/departure times
  • Carpool matching program
  • Better parking pricing or incentives
  • Nothing would change my commute mode
Q12
Multiple Choice

Which department do you work in?

  • Engineering/Product
  • Sales/Marketing
  • Operations
  • Customer Support
  • Finance/Legal/HR
  • Other
  • Prefer not to say
Q13
Multiple Choice

Which office or site is your primary work location? (Template note: replace these with your actual site list before launching.)

  • (Replace with Site A)
  • (Replace with Site B)
  • (Replace with Site C)
  • Remote / no fixed site
  • Prefer not to say
Q14
Multiple Choice

What is your employment type?

  • Full-time
  • Part-time
  • Contractor or temporary
  • Prefer not to say
Q15
Message

That's everything — thank you! Your responses feed into a report the facilities and HR teams use to review parking, transit benefits, and hybrid schedule policy. Individual answers stay confidential.

What’s included

  • AI follow-ups

    Adaptive probes on open-ended answers that pull out detail a static form would miss.

  • Attention checks

    Built-in safeguards against rushed answers and low-quality respondents.

  • AI-drafted copy

    Wording, ordering, and branching written by the AI — tuned to your research goal.

  • Auto report

    Themes, quotes, and a plain-English summary write themselves once responses come in.

How it compares

We reviewed the closest templates from other survey tools. Here’s what they do well — and where this template goes further.

Why this template

  • Includes a dedicated AI follow-up interview block that digs past the satisfaction rating to find the specific cost or reliability tipping points that would change commute behavior, not just a static follow-up text box
  • Uses a point-allocation question to force respondents to split monthly commute spending across categories, giving facilities/HR quantifiable cost data rather than a single open-ended cost estimate
  • Combines objective commute facts (mode, one-way minutes, days in office, parking situation) with a benefits-usage matrix and a job-choice-impact opinion scale, so cost, reliability, and retention signals sit in one instrument
  • Auto-generates a report from these responses aimed at facilities and HR benefit/parking decisions, and the AI follow-up prompts are transparent rather than a black box

QuestionPro

Employee Benefits Survey Questions + Sample Questionnaire Template

This is a general employee benefits questionnaire template, not a commute-specific instrument, though transit/parking benefits could appear as one item among many. It's a fielding-ready static template rather than a guide, but it treats commute as a subset of broader benefits rather than the primary subject.

What it does well

  • Established survey template library with sample questions ready to deploy
  • Covers benefits broadly, so it can be adapted to include transit or parking benefit items
  • Backed by a full survey platform with reporting and distribution tools

Where it falls short

  • No adaptive AI follow-up to probe why a benefit rating was given or what specific change would alter commute behavior
  • Not designed to capture commute-specific metrics like one-way duration, mode split, or constant-sum spending breakdowns
  • No published methodology showing how questions were generated or scored

SurveyMonkey

Employee Benefits Survey: Free Template + Key Questions For HR

Also a general employee benefits template rather than one focused on commute mode, cost, or parking specifics. It's positioned as a free, ready-to-use HR template, useful as a starting point but requiring heavy customization to capture the commute detail QuestionPunk's template already includes.

What it does well

  • Free and immediately usable template with HR-oriented framing
  • Wide brand recognition and easy distribution/reporting workflow
  • Likely includes some benefit-satisfaction questions transferable to a commute context

Where it falls short

  • Static question set with no adaptive AI interview to uncover specific cost or reliability tipping points
  • No constant-sum or matrix-style questions apparent for breaking down commute spending or benefit usage by category
  • No transparent prompt methodology or automated per-response quality scoring

Frequently asked questions

What questions are in the “Employee Commute & Transportation Experience Survey” template?

The template includes 15 ready-to-use questions, starting with: “Thanks for taking a few minutes to tell us about your commute! Your answers help us decide what to do about parking, tra…” · “Which mode of transportation do you use most often for your commute to work?” · “On a typical day you commute in, how many minutes does your one-way trip take?”. The full set is previewed above, and every question is editable.

How long does this survey take to complete?

Respondents typically finish the 15 questions in about 8 minutes.

Can I customize this template?

Yes — every question, answer option, and the ordering is editable before you launch. You can add or remove questions, or ask the AI editor to rework the survey around your research goal.

Is this template free to use?

Yes. Open it in the editor and start customizing right away — no account required to try it, and the free plan covers launching your survey.

Ready to launch?

Open this template in the editor. Every part is yours to change before the first respondent sees it.

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