For Employers
Some of the benefits associated with promoting more sustainable travel to your workplace or campus include:
- Reducing the cost of leasing or maintaining parking spaces
- Reducing fleet costs and mileage claims
- Releasing land formerly used for car parking for more productive purposes
- Reducing staff downtime spent travelling on business
- Enhancing accessibility to a site for staff, students, visitors and suppliers
- Reducing pressure on parking spaces so they are available to those with most need for them
- Tackling congestion, both on and off site
- Complying with environmental management systems
- Maintaining good relationships with neighbouring communities, or improving an organisation’s image
- Promoting health and stress-reduction and reducing absenteeism
- Providing additional employee and student benefits
For Employees and Students
For your employees or students, implementing a Travel Plan can:
- Reduce journey times to campus/ work
- Reduce the cost of travel to campus/ work
- Give opportunities to build exercise and stress-relief into daily life
- Ensure parking for those with most need to access a vehicle
- Ensure access to tax-saving schemes, for example the Cycle to Work scheme
- Promote team-building and access to social networks within the workplace/ campus
- Provide additional non-monetary perks
Read more about the benefits of walking or cycling on the commute, or find out more about some of our Partners’ success stories.