Otago Regional Council support services manager Gerard Collings said transport survey forms had been provided to householders in the area.
The council was thinking further about public transport needs and this was a good time for people in the area to pass on their thoughts, Mr Collings said in an interview.
Public transport needs in the Queenstown and wider Wakatipu area have recently been coming under the spotlight, with the council engaging consultants to help with a Wakatipu network review.
In the Dunedin area, the council has already begun making a series of big changes aimed at boosting the speed, directness and frequency of public bus services, starting earlier this year with the southern routes.
In earlier comment, Mr Collings said the New Zealand Transport Agency and the Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) were mindful of growing highway traffic congestion in the Queenstown area and believed public transport could help counter this challenge.
Queenstown had ''real congestion issues'' and the ORC believed public transport could help with that, he said.
Council director corporate services Nick Donnelly said work had begun on the Wakatipu basin network review and the associated business case development.
Three stakeholder workshops had been undertaken in order to be able to complete the strategic business case and start developing a ''programme case'', Mr Donnelly said in a report tabled at the ORC finance and corporate committee last week.
In earlier workshops, ''some key gaps in our knowledge of the public transport market'' in the Wakatipu Basin area had been identified.
The survey was being undertaken this month and early next month and would ''target both residents and visitors''.
It would help form a ''network baseline'' and test ''base assumptions'' being made in the business case and network review.
''It should also reinforce that this council is actively seeking to identify options for a positive outcome for the Wakatipu public transport system and network.''
The aim was to have the final business case and any proposed transport network changes confirmed by the end of June next year, he said.
