Reduce your travel
Encouraging carpooling at your workplace saves staff time and money, helps our environment, makes good business sense and reduces congestion on our roads.
Why carpool?
Carpooling, or combining it with other forms of active transport:
- saves money – reduced fuel, reduces demand for parking spaces
- saves our environment – reducing greenhouse gases, carbon emissions and depletion of fossil fuels and other precious resources
- improves our liveability – through reduced road congestion and improved air quality
- provides an opportunity to engage and connect with fellow workmates.
What your business can do
- Conduct a staff travel survey to determine which employees are travelling similar routes at similar times.
- Put processes in place to connect those staff members with each other.
- Provide information about the benefits of carpooling and strategies for successful pooling initiatives.
- Provide incentives (bonuses, prizes, time rewards) for staff who travel using the carpool.
- If your business is small, but in a busy area, consider contacting other local businesses to expand your potential pool of drivers and passengers.
Benefits for your workforce
- Non-drivers can utilise travel time productively (checking emails, reading, resting).
- Drivers find it easier to stay alert with others in the car.
- Staff save money by sharing travel costs.
- It eases parking hassles.
- Staff interaction, connection and bonding often increases.
- Staff without cars can access convenient, affordable transport to work.
Benefits for your business
- Establishment costs are low whilst potential benefits are high.
- It reduces the need to maintain large, on-site, staff car parks.
- Customers are able to find parking spaces more easily.
- Carpooling can be used to travel between locations throughout the work day.
- Engagement and social networks increase, often aiding team building.
- Informal opportunities for staff to brainstorm, problem solve and plan occur.
- New staff and customers are attracted by the enhanced corporate image as a result of adopting socially and environmentally responsible practices.
- Improves staff retention by reducing their travel costs.
Benefits for our city and the environment
- Assists in reduction of carbon emissions and depletion of fossil fuels and precious resources by reducing the number of cars on the road.
- Helps reduce road congestion and road maintenance costs.
- It contributes toward safer roads.
- It improves the ‘liveability’ of our city and attractiveness to residents, visitors and new businesses.
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