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- Setting up Travel Plan Networks
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Workplace Travel Plan Case Studies
The following interstate and international case studies cover Workplace Travel Plans as well as travel planning guides and behaviour change initiatives. Together they demonstrate how to overcome barriers to walking, cycling and sustainable travel for both public and private organisations.
Australia
- Optus, Sydney
- Fairfax Media, Sydney
- Aviva, Melbourne
- Melbourne Water
- Griffith Hack, Melbourne
- Woodside Energy, Perth; Water Corporation of WA, Northcote High School Melbourne; The Alfred Hospital Melbourne
- TravelSmart Victoria. Website includes detailed case studies
New Zealand
UK & Europe
- Department for Transport
- Transport for London Travel Plan
- Department for Transport Travel Plan
http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/sustainable/travelplans/dfttravelplan/departmentfortransporttravel1780 - Transport for London website. Includes several workplace travel planning guides including an enterprise scheme guide (20 – 250 employees) and corporate scheme guide (250+ employees).
- Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC)
- European Platform of Mobility Management (EPOMM)
- Transport for London. Good practice travel planning guide for National Health Service sites.
- Case studies of workplaces, including Manchester Airport, Stockport Metropolitan Council, the Royal Mail and Stepping Hill Hospital.
- Strategies for Sustainable Transport- case study examples of using travel planning initiatives to overcome barriers to walking, cycling and sustainable travel
Australasian Academic References
- City of Darebin, Victoria. Travel Behaviour Change Initiatives: A Local Government's Innovations Kate Myers, City of Darebin, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
- QE11 medical centre, Perth
- City of Darebin, Melbourne, Victoria
- New Zealand – Auckland Central Police, Christchurch City Council, Environment Canterbury
- Flinders University, South Australia
- Summary of Universities
- Monash and LaTrobe Universities, Victoria
- Monash University, Clayton campus, Victoria
- University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Workplace Travel Plans Work - Evidence
The following resources provide reviews of various workplace travel planning initiatives. These reviews highlight lessons learned in trying to make Travel Plans work. They also compare and evaluate the impacts and outcomes of different travel planning approaches and interventions.
- Evaluation of school and workplace travel plan SSA programme. Department for Transport, UK
- Making travel plans work: lessons from UK case studies. Department for Transport, UK.
- Impacts of Better Use Transport Interventions: Review of the Evaluation Evidence Base, Independent Social Research October 2009, commissioned by UK Department of Transport
- Smarter Choices, Changing the Way we Travel. Department for Transport, UK, 2005
- Reducing car commuting through employer-based travel planning in Perth, Australia / Wake, David. TDM review, no. 1 (2007) p. 11-13
- Comparison of approaches to Workplace Travel Planning in Perth and Melbourne
- Physical activity, absenteeism and productivity: an Evidence Review, Adrian Davis, JMP Consulting (Lead Author) and Marcus Jones, TRL (Project Manager), 2007
Costs and Benefits of Workplace Travel Plans - Evaluations
The following resources provide guidance on how to appraise travel planning schemes and initiatives. They provide consistent approaches to summarise and evaluate the potential costs and benefits of proposed schemes.
- Guidance on the Appraisal of Walking and Cycling Schemes, TAG Unit 3.14.1, January 2010, UK Department for Transport, Transport Analysis Guidance (TAG)
- Individual Behaviour Change: Evidence in transport and public health, University of West of England & Centre for Transport and Society, 2009
- Evaluation of Non-Pricing Travel Demand Management Measures: Progress Report on Current Practice and Checklist, Austroads, 2006
Using the Planning Process to Deliver Workplace Travel Plans
The following guidance for land-use development demonstrates how to deliver successful travel planning outcomes through the NSW, Victorian and UK land-use planning systems.
- City of Ryde Council. DCP 2008 requires a Workplace Travel Plan for development exceeding 15,000sqm or 300 employees in the Macquarie Park Corridor.
- TravelSmart Victoria “Travel Planning Guide - for Local Government Projects”
- Good Practice Guidelines: Delivering Travel Plans through the Planning Process, Department for Transport, UK 2009
- A Guide on Travel Plans for Developers, Department for Transport. UK 2006
Setting up Travel Plan Networks
The following resources provide practical guidance on how to set up a Local Travel Plan Group/ Network - a group of organisations that have come together to share resources and ideas for developing and implementing a Travel Plan in their local area - and a Transport Management Association.
- Transport for London. Local Travel Plan Groups - A practical guide to setting up an effective group.
- UK Department for Transport. A Guide on How to Set up and Run Travel Plan Networks.
- Auckland Regional Transport Authority, Transport Management Association (TMA) Guidance
Preparing a Workplace Travel Plan
This section provides a range of tools necessary to "unlock" a number of the "keys to success" in preparing a Workplace Travel Plan. The tools include methodologies to calculate a financial case for a Travel Plan, undertake a workplace site audit and monitor travel behaviour change on a regular basis.
A Business Case
- TravelSmart Victoria Business Case Tool - an online calculator to help calculate savings achieved through implementation of a workplace travel plan.
- UK Department for Transport “The Essential Guide to Travel Planning” includes a simple checklist to help calculate a financial case for your travel plan.
Site Audit Tools
- UK Department for Transport “The Essential Guide to Travel Planning” includes a site audit methodology.
- Hampshire County Council (UK) Workplace Travel Plan guidance includes a site audit tool.
Monitoring
- UK Department for Transport “The Essential Guide to Travel Planning” includes a spot count methodology to help monitor travel behaviour change in the workplace on a regular basis
- UK Standard Assessment method for Travel Plan impacts, TRICS
Workplace Travel Plan Initiatives
The following resources provide ideas, success stories and practical guides, rather than comprehensive case studies, on how to introduce and implement sustainable travel alternatives in the workplace.
- Greater Wellington Regional Council. Ideas for your workplace.
Reducing the Need to Travel
- UK Sustainable Development Commission. Smarter moves. How information communications technology can promote sustainable mobility
- New Zealand Transport Agency. Alternatives to business travel.
Transport Access Guides
- The Roads and Traffic Authority supports organisations to develop a Transport Access Guide.
- The Roads and Traffic Authority runs free sustainable travel planning workshops to assist organisations to prepare and produce their own Transport Access Guide.
Walking and Cycling Resources
- NSW Active Transport Planner’s Tool Kit
- City of Sydney Council Cycle Friendly Workplace Resource
- Cycling Resource Centre
- Bicycle Victoria, Bicycle Parking Handbook
- Bikewest - guideline document for the provision of end of trip cycling facilities in government buildings.
- Queensland Transport - guidelines on end-of-trip facilities for bicycle riders
- “Encouraging Walking and Cycling: Success Stories"
The following sources provide access to detailed household and journey to work travel data as well as trip/ route planning information for both the Sydney Metropolitan area and country NSW.
- Transport Data Centre (TDC) – holds data from the Household Travel Survey (HTS) and Census Journey to Work data. Offers free data summaries and will also produce customised data requests.
- 131500 Transport Info website - good source of information for trip planning, route maps, timetables, fares etc
- Information on transport services in country NSW
- Nabers Commuter Transport Rating Tool - The National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS) is a government initiative to measure and compare the environmental performance of holdings, such as offices, hotels and shopping centres against compatible market structures. The NABERS Commuter Transport tool rates performance of the transport choices of staff on a scale of 1 to 5 stars via the implementation of a staff travel survey and allows companies to track and measure their success in achieving their Workplace Travel Plan goals. For more information please contact nabers@environment.nsw.gov.au.