What's all the fuss about?

What is a Travel Plan?

A travel plan is a package of measures adopted by an organisation, or group of organisations to encourage employees to use alternatives to single occupancy car use. Such a plan could include: car sharing schemes; a commitment to improve cycling facilities; a dedicated bus service or restricted car parking allocations. It might also promote flexible-working practices such as remote access and video conferencing.

Travel plans can offer real benefits not only to the organisation and its employees, but also the community that surrounds it. It may help to relieve local parking or congestion problems or improve public transport connections across the area. It may also relieve stress on employees through reducing delays or providing the opportunity to cut their travel commitments by working from home on occasion.

What can Travel Plans do for you?

Experience shows that benefits accruing from a travel plan can be extensive. These include:

• Help provide viable alternatives, giving you a real choice of how you travel to work;
• Reduce journey-times to work;
• Assure parking for those with most need to access a vehicle;
• Reduce the cost of travel to work, or avert the need to buy a car;
• Give opportunities to build exercise into daily life;
• Give the opportunity to contribute to a better environment.

Why an Area Wide Travel Plan?

There are many benefits of working collectively with others companies, rather than going it alone. These include:

• the opportunity to exchange information and ideas between businesses;
• increased collective bargaining power;
• more cost effective measures;
• enhanced relationships and mutual understanding.

What can Travel Plans do for your company?

Which benefits are most important to Langage business park will depend on local circumstances and will partly determine the emphasis of your travel plan. Benefits for your company could include:

• Solve problems caused by demand for parking;
• Improve the image of your company and corporate social responsibility;
• Increase the success of planning applications;
• Save money on the cost of providing and maintaining car parking spaces;
• Improve staff retention and employee morale;
• Solve problems caused by congestion on and around your site;
• Release land under car parks for more productive use;
• Improve staff health and reduce absenteeism;
• Enable more customers to access your site