What is a Workplace Travel Plan?
A workplace travel plan provides solutions to workplace transport issues. It entails staff and management working to develop a responsive and coordinated plan for the business. The result is greater choice for the journey to work for employees, better service for clients and visitors to the company, and more effective management of business travel and freight.
Benefits of a workplace travel plan
By reducing the number of vehicles going to your workplace and increasing accessibility through more travel options, organisations can:
save on car parking
release land for development needs
reduce the costs of running vehicle fleets
improve staff productivity
provide community and environmental benefits
offer benefits to staff
improve your company image
With the increased awareness of the health benefits of an active lifestyle, daily exercise through travel options such as walking and cycling to work can also contribute to employee wellbeing.
A workplace travel plan is smart business
If one of the problems below applies to your workplace, a travel plan could provide the solution:
Insufficient car parking
Expensive parking
Time spent stuck in traffic rather than working
Visitors and customers have difficulties finding your site
Parking overflows onto neighbourhood streets
Environmental issues
Typical travel planning solutions are:
Car parking management
Secure cycle facilities
Showers and lockers for walkers, joggers and cyclists
Communication and promotion (e.g. passenger transport clinics)
Carpooling
Incentives
Fleet bikes and public transport passes for business travel
Flexible working arrangements
Staff transport subsidies