North East Lincolnshire Council's Guide to Travel Plans
What is a Travel Plan?
Travel Plans are aimed at promoting more sustainable travel to
work by offering realistic transport choices. For car drivers it is
often much easier to change to travelling by bus, cycle or on foot
when the journey is a regular one, such as the daily trip to and
from work.
As an employer you can have a role to play by introducing
measures such as car and van sharing schemes, help with season
ticket purchase and secure cycle parking facilities.
Travel Plans are not 'anti-car', but emphasise the travel
choices that are available and offer practical measures on how to
make them more accessible for everyone. Each organisation's travel
plan is individually tailored to address the particular needs of
its employees and site location.
A Travel Plan does not have to be restricted to commuter
journeys, it can also include measures to reduce the cost of your
business journeys and make your site easily accessible to visitors
and deliveries to and from your premises. Policies directed at the
more efficient management of company fleet vehicles can also be
adopted...saving you money.
Why have a Travel Plan?
A Travel Plan can be a means of achieving both cost and non-cash
benefits for your organisation. The health and productivity of your
workforce may increase, as will the pool of labour available for
recruitment. Cost savings can be made, for example by addressing
business travel.
The Potential Benefits of Having a Travel
Plan……
Enjoy Easier Access to your Site for Deliveries and
Staff
Improve access into and around your site and contribute to
reducing overall traffic congestion. This can reduce stress for
both employees and visitors and may also improve the reliability
and punctuality of deliveries to and from your business;
facilitating management systems such as 'just in time'.
Enhance your Company's Image
In the marketplace the adoption of a Travel Plan promotes your
organisation's environmental image and provides positive public
relations opportunities. The employee focus of a travel plan may
also enhance your organisation's image to potential employees,
offering an advantage in the recruitment marketplace. In the local
community A Travel Plan will demonstrate your organisation's
responsible attitude to the environmental and social impact of
traffic in your neighbourhood. A plan may reduce congestion on
local roads and improve local air quality, it can also help to
improve public transport service and reduce traffic-related
noise.
Contribute to a more Committed, Healthy
Workforce
Staff choosing to cycle, walk or use public transport to travel
to work may benefit from improved fitness and health, which can
increase their level of commitment.
Support a Planning Application
Canges in planning guidance mean that local planning authorities
may require applications to be accompanied by a travel plan.
Cut Costs on Parking Provision
A Travel Plan may reduce the need for additional car parking
spaces; offering related savings in capital expenditure and the
opportunity cost of converting land to car parking. A reduction in
car parking growth will result, in relative terms, in savings on
the costs of car parking provision such as administration,
electricity, security, rates, and maintenance.
Improve your Staff Recruitment and
Retention
Adoption of a travel plan may confer 'employer of choice' status
in the recruitment marketplace. The potential benefits of a travel
plan to staff health, morale and productivity can also improve
staff retention level
Enjoy Real Cost Savings on Business Travel
Measures such as restructuring the car mileage system to offer a
flat rate regardless of engine size, reducing the need to travel to
meetings by installing Tele-conferencing facilities, or converting
the company van/car fleet to more efficient fuel can all offer real
cost savings. Similarly, encouraging car-sharing to external
meetings can also provide benefits.
Please follow the link below to North East Lincolnshire
Council's guide to travel plans.
North East Lincolnshire Council's
Guide to Travel Plans
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