Why use public transport?

• Saves money – no fuel, parking or vehicle maintenance costs.
• Creates time – gives you time in your day to read, listen to music, catch up on emails, or watch videos.
• Saves stress – no parking hassles or problems in heavy or unfamiliar traffic, and fewer unexpected road delays.
• Saves our environment – reducing greenhouse gases, carbon emissions and depletion of fossil fuels and other precious resources.
• Improves our health – by making us more active.
• Improves our city’s 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.
• Create travel action plans that incorporate convenient local public transport options.
• Consider providing staff with MyWay cards for staff.
• Check what other businesses in your area are doing to encourage use of public transport.
• Promote use of public transport for the commute to work at inductions and staff trainings.
• Provide maps, travel apps, timetables and information about nearby public transport options.
• Provide shower, change and locker facilities.

Helping your business

Encouraging use of public transport 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.

Encouraging public transport use helps your employees by:

• increasing their levels of physical activity and contributing to improving their health
• providing opportunities for them to relax, read, study, listen to music and sleep
• saving them money (it’s almost always cheaper than using and maintaining a private vehicle, particularly for regular users)
• minimising stress at the start of the work day
• saving them time (particularly during peak times)
• offering variety and choice for the commute
• being generally safer than using private vehicles
• helping them become more familiar with their local community.

Encouraging public transport use helps your business by:

• 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 businesses and commuters make the switch, the ACT Government is committed to a transport strategy that features more attractive, flexible travel options that increase choice and reduce carbon emissions. To tackle transport emissions, we will transition to a zero emissions public transport fleet by 2040 as part of the Transport Canberra Zero Emissions Transition Plan.

For more information visit workplace travel.