Scoot to work

Why scoot?

• Saves money – no fuel, parking or vehicle maintenance costs.
• Saves time – often faster than travelling by car, especially in peak periods.
• Saves the stress – no parking hassles, unexpected road delays, or problems in heavy or unfamiliar traffic.
• Saves our environment – reducing greenhouse gases, carbon emissions and depletion of fossil fuels and other precious resources.
• Improves our health, strength, fitness and overall wellbeing through exercise.
• Improves our liveability through reduced road congestion and improved air quality.

What your business can do

• Conduct a travel choices survey to see how your staff travel.
• In partnership with staff, create travel action plans or transport information packs that incorporate e-scooting.
• Check what other businesses in your area are doing to encourage the use of e-scooters.
• Promote e-scooting via staff inductions, trainings, emails and notice boards.
• Provide staff with maps and information about local shared path routes and information about how to incorporate e-scooting into their daily commute.
• Offer incentives, competitions and social events around e-scooting to/at work.
• Consider providing e-scooters in the workplace for small deliveries, attending meetings or for staff to run lunchtime errands.

Helping your business

Encouraging use of e-scooters is great for the future of your business too. It assists your customers by giving them convenient, affordable and accessible transport options, and reduces road and local parking congestion improving access to your business.

Benefits for your workforce

• increasing their levels of physical activity and contributing to improving their health
• providing opportunities for them to have fun and relax
• minimising stress at the start of the work day
• saving them time (particularly during peak times)
• offering variety and choice for the commute
• helping them become more familiar with their local community.

Benefits for your business

• giving you a healthier workforce – meaning reduced absenteeism, increased productivity, and a more positive working environment
• reducing road congestion – which improves attractiveness for tourists and stimulates the economy
• enhancing your corporate reputation as an employer of choice because of your environmentally and socially responsible practices – which means talented staff and new customers will seek you out
• making deliveries and receipt of goods more cost-effective as a result of reduced road congestion.

Encouraging public transport use helps our city and the environment by:

• reducing private car use, carbon emission production, and depletion of precious resources
• reducing congestion which improves the liveability of our city and encourages visitors, new residents and other businesses, which is good for our economy.

What the ACT Government is doing

To help people rethink their mode of travel and make the switch to include e-scooting, the ACT Government is prioritising projects and initiatives that provide safe infrastructure for e-scooting and a better connected and maintained shared path network. This includes:

• improving off road paths and protected cycleways to make people feel safe on e-scooters adequate separation from motor vehicle traffic
• improving education about how to use e-scooters, with an emphasis on meeting transport needs and safe and courteous riding behaviour
• refining geolocation settings to encourage orderly parking of devices
• better integration with public transport so that these two modes can be used together, with a focus on connecting up e-scooters with the high frequency Rapid routes and supporting their use at special events to reduce parking and traffic congestion
• raising London Circuit to enable people to scoot between the city and the lake

For more information visit workplace travel.