Promoting green travel to help the environment
Here is some Greener Now advice designed to encourage employers to support and employees to choose environmentally sustainable ways of travelling to work.
What can employers do to promote green travel?
- Encourage your staff to share cars to work, walk or use bicycles, motorbikes or public transport.
- Offer rebates to workers who do not use parking spaces. This can free up parking space for more productive use.
- Provide safe cycle lock-ups, changing facilities and showers.
- Provide dedicated transport services for commuters, if public transport is inadequate.
- Promote flexible working conditions, which permit some home working and avoidance of peak hour traffic.
- Enabling employees to work from home, this reduces road traffic.
- Encourage staff to use the roads less for business purposes by making more use of information technology such as email or audio and video-conferencing to communicate with colleagues and partners.
What employees can do to ensure green travel?
- Walk or cycle to work, or use public transport
- If you can, use tele-conferencing and video conferencing instead of travelling to meetings
- Explore with your manager the scope for working from home
- Car share instead of driving alone
- Encourage your employer to organise secure cycle storage and showers at work
Changing the way you and your employees travel to work can reduce climate change effects, reduce pollution and improve sustainability. Click on the link for some useful transport and green travel links.
So why not join Greener Now and be more eco-friendly when travelling to work.
