Business Travel Plans

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Business Travel Plans

• Andy Mouland
• Project Officer Business TravelWise
• Highways Transport (Policy) West Sussex County
  Council

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Business Travel Plans

• What Travel Plans are
• Why they are needed (relevant policies)
• Key Elements
• Examples of Travel Plans in West Sussex
• Sources of further information

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What is a Travel Plan? (1)

• Framework to deliver more sustainable, and more
  economical business and commuter travel by
• Providing real alternatives to single occupancy
  car use
• Promoting the sustainable travel options
  available to employees
• Reducing the need to travel
• Setting and monitoring targets for modal shift
  away from single occupancy car use
• Focus on peak hour commuting (SOV)
• Also opportunity to look at business travel,
  deliveries from suppliers and to customers, fleet
  management

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What is a Travel Plan? (2)

• A Travel Plan is not an anti-car policy but
  promotes and enables sensible and more efficient
  car use in addition to more sustainable travel
  options

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Why are they needed? (1)
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Why are they needed? (2)
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Policy Background

• In the past, new developments needed a minimum
  level of parking provision
• New Planning Policy Guidance for Transport, March
  2001 (PPG13)
• Set maximum parking standards for new
  developments
• More sustainable less congestion and pollution
• Developers are now required to submit Travel
  Plans in support of planning applications, to
  address the Total Access Demand for the site
  (reduce the need to travel by car).
• On-going roll-out of DPE in major towns

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Key Elements

• No prescribed format for Travel Plan WSCC
  suggested template
• Measures depend on site, home location of
  employees, and sometimes nature of business
• A Travel Plan should include
• An understanding of existing travel behaviour
  (baseline survey results)
• Nominated Travel Plan Co-ordinator and/or
  steering group (responsible for delivery and
  monitoring)
• Details of measures to be implemented (and when)
• SMART targets for reducing lone car use and
  increasing use of other modes (Specific,
  Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Timebound)
• Proposals for future monitoring and review

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What are the benefitsfor businesses?

• As well as helping to reduce congestion, Travel
  Plans have the potential to deliver a number of
  real benefits including
• Capital cost savings (up to 4k per parking space
  maintenance)
• Reduced fuel costs
• Reduced staff turnover and recruitment costs
• Fitter healthier staff (more productive, less
  time off sick)
• Improved visitor access to premises
• Helping to meet Environmental Management
  Standards (ISO14001)
• Helping to gain planning permission (30
  employees)
• Excellent opportunity to promote the organisation
  as being socially and environmentally ethical,
  caring and responsible

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Benefits for your workforce

• Better health - air pollution kills 10 times more
  people than road accidents (Source NSCA
  conservative estimate)
• Improved Fitness walking or cycling for 30 mins
  each day can reduce your risk of heart disease by
  50(Source Health Education Authority)
• Less stressful than driving
• Reduce fuel bills (car sharing). Walking and
  cycling are free.
• Reduce other hidden costs associated with driving
• The AA estimates that new car ownership costs
  over 100 per week!

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Travel Plan Measures
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Examples

• Secure, covered motorcycle parking at Rolls-Royce
• Less than 20 drive alone to work

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Examples

• Collyers College, Horsham
• Reduced parking on site by 50 with no impact on
  local roads

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Examples

• BAA Gatwick
• Has its own Staff travel Plan
• Also help on-airport and other local businesses
  to develop Travel Plans
• 2012 Targets 20 of airport staff living in
  Crawley/Horley to use local bus for travel to
  work within 3 years of core Fastway completion.
  45 of airport staff living in Croydon, Bromley
  and Merton using public transport for travel to
  work. 30 of airport staff living in Brighton
  and on the Sussex Coast using alternatives to
  private car for travel to work.

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Examples

• West Sussex County Council
• Since 2000 the proportion of staff cycling to
  County Hall has increased from 4 to 7 and
• The proportion of staff travelling by public
  transport has increased from 7 to 15

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The Effectiveness of Travel Plans
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The Effectiveness of Travel Plans

• Journey to work mode split (source WSCC
  household survey)

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How we can help

• Free Business Travel Plans Information Pack
• Feedback on draft Travel Plans
• Free posters and promotional material
• Central source of information (public transport
  info, cycle route maps, web site links,
  Bike2Work day, Car Free day etc)
• www.westsussexcarshare.com

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Other sources of help

• Transport Energy
• upto 5 days free site-specific advice
• Employers Resource Pack CD-ROM(free)
• Inland Revenue (Personal Tax Payer Series IR176)
• Motorvate (clean vehicles/fleet management)

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Final Thought

• If every driver were to leave their car at home
  one day each week, there would be 20 less
  traffic on our roads
• Thats equivalent to cutting out the school-run
  altogether!

• Car Share examples
• Sussex Police
• Royal West Sussex NHS Trust
• Brighton Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust
• Queen Victoria Hospital
• West Sussex County Council
• Crawley Borough Council
• . have all joined westsussexcarshare.com
• Public groups have also been set up for the main
  industrial estates and business parks

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Contact details

• For further information click onwww.westsussex
  .gov.uk/travelwiseor www.westsussexcarshare.com
• or contactAndy MoulandProject Officer -
  Business TravelWiseTel [phone] Fax
  [phone]Email andy.mouland_at_westsussex.gov.
  ukEmail travelwise_at_westsussex.gov.uk

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