What is a Travel Plan?
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A travel plan is about the environment, a healthy workforce, cutting congestion and saving money!
It is a package of measures which aim to provide greater sustainable travel choice for staff to help them reduce their reliance on single occupancy car journeys for commuting and business travel. They are an effective process for managing the travel needs of your staff and your organisation.
Travel plans are about people, and they should be involved at all stages throughout the travel plan' development. Travel plans promote walking and cycling, the use of public transport and car sharing. They are not anti-car, instead they promote different travel choices that are available, and to make these travel choices accessible to all. Every organisation's travel plan should be developed to address the particular needs of its employees and site location.
A Travel Plan is a management tool which brings together transport and other business issues in a co-ordinated strategy, with an emphasis on increasing travel choices. It involves the development of a set of mechanisms, initiatives and targets that together can enable your organisation to reduce the impact of transport on the environment, whilst bringing a number of other benefits to your organisation as an employer and also to staff and visitors.
A Travel Plan is a dynamic process which will grow and develop with time, and with the changing circumstances of your organisation and the environment in which it works.
Many organisations are introducing Travel Plans to encourage their staff and visitors to travel other than by single occupancy car. Visitors can mean clients, learners and supporters.
Travel Plans are being introduced mainly for journeys to or from work or for journeys made during the course of the working day.
A Travel Plan can take a variety of forms to suit a particular site, but all tend to include practical measures:
- To reduce reliance on single occupancy car travel to work
- Provide greater transport choice
- Increase active travel
- Increase use of public transport
- Reduce car travel for business
- Reduce the need for business travel
- Reduce visitor travel
- Reduce deliveries and / or contractors travel
- Reduce fleet vehicle movements
Travel Plans are relevant to the full range of developments relating to jobs, leisure, retail and services, including offices, industry, health and education uses. They can also be introduced in other situations such as residential developments.
At the heart of successful Travel Planning is partnership. Through working in partnership with other organisations and businesses, including local planning authorities and public transport operators, real transport alternatives could be provided to your site.
Travel Plans can involve the introduction of incentives to people to change their mode of travel, such as discounts or interest free loans for alternative transport modes, sometimes in the context of reducing dependency on the use of private cars.
