
Travel is an essential part of all our lives, whether at home, at work or in our leisure time. But travel can have detrimental impacts on the environment, congestion and the economy. Travel Plans are one of the ways in which we can seek to minimise the impacts of our travel by reducing the need for journeys, reducing the number of single occupancy car journeys we make and by encouraging the use of sustainable modes such as walking, cycling, public transport and car sharing.
Organisations can implement workplace or company travel plans to achieve corporate social responsibility or environmental objectives, to address existing transport problems that may affect efficiency or productivity, or to achieve cost savings though reduced and alternative modes of travel. Further details and benefits of implementing workplace travel plans and how Green Travel Plans can help can be found here.
Developers are routinely required to develop travel plans to secure planning permissions. However, this should not be viewed as box ticking exercise. We believe that developers can realise significant value by considering travel planning issues during the design process to ensure that relevant measures can be designed into the development to enhance its sustainability, improve its marketability and potentially result in cost savings by reducing or eliminating the need to undertake expensive off-site highway works. Further details and benefits that Green Travel Plans can bring to developers can be found here.
Green Travel Plans provide a full range of travel planning services to enable businesses and developers to reduce their transport impacts whilst meeting financial, environmental, social and ethical objectives.