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The Highways Agency

Organisational challenge/context

• Highways Agency’s National Travel Plan aims to encourage and enable staff to adopt sustainable travel behaviour and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 15% by 2010/11
• The Business Plan highlights a target for reducing the carbon dioxide emissions by 5% from the main Highways Agency offices and administrative business travel
• Business benefits are also anticipated from encouraging staff to be healthier and reducing sickness absence.

Sustainable travel intervention(s)

• ‘Cycle to Work Scheme’ gives employees access to bikes (‘Bike Pools’ are also available at 5 sites)
• The Agency offesr a cycle rate of 20p per mile for business travel and supply all cyclists with free repair kits, pumps, rucksacks and cycle glasses
• All office locations have changing facilities and the majority of main offices have drying rooms available.

Results/benefits

• Approximately 8 -10% of staff cycle to work in the main office locations
• The Agency anticipated meeting the Cycle Guarantee in full within 12 months - installing better facilities for cyclists; Bike Pools, Buddy systems and Bicycle User Groups at every location; Cycle Insurance and Free Bikeability training for all staff; and time allowance rewards to allow for lost time changing and showering once at work

Company Description
The Highways Agency is an executive agency, part of the Department for Transport in England with responsibility for managing the core road network in England

Website
www.highways.gov.uk

Case Study
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