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Workplace Travel Plan Benefits
Workplace Travel Plan Benefits
Developing a travel plan can provide a range of benefits for your business, your employees, and the local community, as well as helping to address some wider environmental and social concerns. Below are a few of the benefits.
For the business:
- reduced expenditure on business travel
- less space and expenditure needed to provide parking
- improved relations with the local community throughy reducing congestion and parking problems around the site
- improved staff punctuality
- a healthier, more productive workforce
For employees:
- an excellent opportunity for daily exercise through cycling or walking to work
- the opportunity to save money by switching to a cheaper travel mode
- reduced commuter stress, potentially shorter travel times, and an improved work/life balance through flexible working arrangements
For the local and the wider community:
- less traffic, leading to fewer hazards and fewer road accidents
- less congestion
- improved local air quality
- reduction in the CO² emissions that contribute to environmental pollution and global warming
- reduction in the social exclusion experienced by groups less likely to have use of a car
If you are interested in developing a travel plan, please contact the Workplace Travel Plan Officer by telephone on 020 8547 5760 or email at travel.plans@rbk.kingston.gov.uk to discuss the needs of your business and the possibility of joining a local travel plan group.