Workplace travel plan
What is a workplace travel plan?
Providing sustainable travel options for employees and customers makes good business sense. It can save time, improve the environment and when you add the associated costs like staff expenses, car park charges and fleet management costs, it offers financial savings too.
Hackney Council are here to help improve your organisation's efficiency and productivity by giving your staff wider travel options. These include:
- Car sharing and car clubs
- Public transport
- Cycling and walking
- Reducing the need to travel through home and flexible working
We can help you set up a 'workplace travel plan' - a business management tool that develops and promotes sustainable travel options for your staff saving your organisation and employees time and money.
We can also identify sources of funding and provide advice, information and support, tailored to your strategic business needs.
Business benefits
- Cost savings for your business. Effectively managing your organisation's journeys will reduce costs associated with business travel (like staff expenses, car park charges, congestion charging and fleet management costs), saving your organisation money and time
- A more attractive employer. Providing and encouraging travel options will help you improve staff retention and recruitment by making your organisation even more employee focused. By positively supporting your employees' needs, they will be more satisfied and more productive
- Achieve carbon reduction. Enhance your environmental credentials by being part of the solution that will make a local and global difference
- A healthier, more productive workplace. Promoting active travel options such as walking and cycling will improve the motivation, health and fitness of your employees - this improves productivity and reduces sickness absence. Follow the link to read Transport For London's evidence review which is part of a longer-term study into the health impacts of workplace travel plans
- More travel options for your business. By promoting greater travel choices, you'll enhance your core business prospects by giving employees, visitors and customers more ways of reaching you. It will also help alleviate car parking pressures at your site
- Be an employer of choice. Demonstrating your commitment to corporate social responsibility, you'll build a better reputation with staff, key stakeholders and across your local community
What support is available?
To enable both large organisations and small-medium sized enterprises to implement travel plans, Hackney Council will provide tailored guidance and support to your business.
This includes various funding opportunities and resources designed to help with the travel planning process.
- Sustainable transport fund - grants towards implementing sustainable transport initiative at your workplace For example: pool bikes, shower facilities, cycle parking provisions, mapping, competition prizes
- Cycle superhighway - Workplaces close to the new Barclays cycle superhighways routes can apply for cycle parking, cycle training and cycle safety check sessions to help you kick-start cycling in your workplace
- Take a stand - providing free cycle parking for organisations that sign up to the cycle to work guarantee scheme (which is free of charge)
Workplace travel plan - sustainable transport grant
Hackney Council can provide grants of up to £2,000 for you to implement a measure identified within your travel plan, as well as advice on how to make the most of your investment in sustainable transport.
A travel plan can help improve your organisation's efficiency and productivity by giving your staff wider travel options. We will provide guidance through each stage of development and implementation of a workplace travel plan and work with you using a range of site-specific surveys and audit tools to gather data on your organisation's current travel patterns and needs.
For more details about workplace travel funds and to get started please email movegreener@hackney.gov.uk
Barclay's cycle superhighway
Barclays cycle superhighways are new cycle lanes that run into central London from outer London to provide cyclists with safer, faster and more direct journeys into the city - perfect for your staff to use for their commute to work! Using the superhighways for business trips also means reduced costs associated with business travel.
You and your workplace
In order to support cyclists using the highways at the work-end of their journey, TfL is offering businesses along the Barclays cycle superhighways the opportunity to sign up for products and services. If your organisation is:
- located within 1.5km of a superhighway route
- has a minimum of 50 employees and
- has not had a planning requirement to provide cycle facilities or develop a travel plan since April 2008
What is available to my business as part of the scheme?
Once your business has completed the confirmation process below it will be eligible for a combination of:
- cycle storage (the business will be responsible for installation)
- cycle training for employees to improve their skills, safety and confidence
- cycle safety check sessions to get your employees bicycles back on the road. These will be held at or close to your business to be as convenient as possible for staff to drop their bike in for a health check
- An events calendar so your business can take part in London, national and international cycling events
- support and guidance with promoting cycling and safety to your staff
Take a stand: free bicycle stands
Transport for London will provide your business with up to 20 free cycle stands (bolt-on Sheffield type stands).
In order to qualify, you must have a minimum of 50 employees at your site, sign up to the cycle to work guarantee scheme (which is free of charge), and provide photographic evidence that the stands have been installed within 3 months of delivery. Orders should be submitted to Worktp@tfl.gov.uk
For more details about workplace travel funds and to get started please email: movegreener@hackney.gov.uk.
Page updated: 15 Aug 2011
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