CSR Tip of the week: Travel Plan
TRAVEL: Reducing travel not only reduces carbon emissions; it can also save on costs and improves the wellbeing of your delegates. Reduce the impacts of travel by offering a travel plan: AA 1. Choose a sustainability champion within your organisation to be in charge of a travel plan 2. Try to find venues close to public transport and promote the available public transport links to delegates. Provide a link to a travel site. If venue is not in walking distance of public transport, offer a shuttle service or encourage taxi-sharing 3. Provide a link to an online map and tell delegates how they can reach the venue by foot 4. Promote and/or provide cycling facilities, such as local cycle lanes and routes and bike racks. Consider promotions to reward those that cycle. 5. Limit the number of car parking spaces available, and provide them only to those who are unable to travel by public transport 6. For those travelling by car, encourage car-sharing: put delegates in touch with other travelling from the same areas so they can share cars. This networking opportunity can also add value to delegates 7. Offset staff and delegate carbon emissions or encourage delegates to offset their own emissions to work towards the British Standard on carbon offsetting. 8. Consider using an online tool to monitor and measure miles travelled by delegates. Consider creating a benchmark for this with the view to reduce for future events.
