Travel smart - choose cleaner transportation options!
Conduct a commuter survey.
Find out how employees get to work
by completing a commuter survey; determine the percentage that uses alternative
transportation (bicycling, transit, walking, carpooling).
Permit alternative work options.
Develop a telecommuting or flextime policy for employees.
Discourage employees driving to
work.
Eliminate the provision of free or
subsidized parking as an employee benefit.
Provide a transit benefit program.
Encourage the use of public
transportation and/or biking by providing benefits to employees who commute
using those modes.
Use teleconferencing and/or
webinars.
Reduce the need to travel to
meetings by using these options.
Partner with a carsharing company.
Join a carsharing company as a business member,
and offer personal membership as a benefit to employees.
Rent fuel efficient cars for
business travel.
Establish a policy where employees
must request a fuel efficient car when feasible (hybrid, E85, hydrogen fuel
cell) for business travel.
Offset business travel emissions.
Calculate and offset carbon emissions
from employee business travel.
