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• Re-thinking commuting
  • Commuting basics
  • What we could do differently
    • Encouraging cycling and walking for work
      • Cycling benefits
      • Cycling as part of a work-related journey
      • Changing behaviour
      • Walking benefits
    • Commuting by rail
    • Encouraging work-related travel by bus and coach
    • Motorcycling for work
    • Re-thinking cars for work
  • Reducing commuting through ICT
• Re-thinking business travel
• Measuring and monitoring carbon impacts
• Creating your ways2work plan
• Creating a healthy workplace

Cycling benefits

Forster
Commuting by bike has increased from 13% to 31% and business travel by bike has gone from zero to 30% in less than a year. Forster pay 40 pence per mile for clycling on business and pool bikes are used daily and have reduced taxi bills by 10%. Client engagement – having seen the benefits two customers are looking to introduce similar cycle schemes for their staff.
Forster was named UK’s greenest business by the Sunday Times in 2009, who cited the cycling scheme as one of the main reasons.

Bentley Cars in Crewe
11% of 4,500 associates cycle to work against a national average of 2% with most commuting 3-5 miles although one employee regularly completes an 80-mile daily.

MEPC Birchwood Park
Through encouragement and support, cycling has risen to 4% in 2009 and is an important part of the Park’s Travel Plan.

GlaxoSmithKline
More than 15% of staff are registered as cyclists. The company offers a holistic cycling service. Staff are able to drop into the centre to resolve issues with their bicycles or discuss any aspect of cycling that may be concerning them. Cyclists have excellent facilities – and GlaxoSmithKline benefits from fewer cars, requiring fewer car parking spaces, coming to their site.

Barclays
Their Bike4work scheme is a great way for employees to get fit, help the environment
and save money on the cost of a bike. It has enabled Barclays to add a green dimension to its benefit proposition and helped reduce its employees’ carbon footprint by 220,844 miles (2009).

Lancaster University
10% of students living off-campus cycle to the University, up from just over 5% in less than 2 years. Student car use dropped by 4.8% . The proportion of staff cycling to work is one of the highest in Lancashire at just over 13% . 30% of postgraduate research students cycle as their main mode of travel. This reduces the requirement for car parking enabling university to manage its limited car parking resources to maximum effectiveness.

NATS
Active and sustainable travel interventions have reduced sole occupancy car use to their sites from 80% to 66% in 14 months with the Cycle2work scheme encouraging 28 employees to stop driving to work.

BSkyB
BSkyB incorporated cycling into their hugely successful CSR programme, ‘The Bigger Picture’ and now have up to 250 people cycling to work each day. Single occupancy car travel has reduced by 18% in 24 months making a significant contribution to BSkyB’s CSR commitments and making effective use of its very constrained car parking.