- European Mobility Week – ‘Moving in the right direction’ Best Practice Guide
- 2012/13 Carplus Annual Survey results out now! 13 June 2013
- Smarter Choices, Smarter Places – Evaluation and outcomes
- Telehealth initiatives – reducing patients travel
- Get ready for Walk to Work Week 2013
- Transport Scotland Invitation for Secondee - Smarter Choices, Smarter Places
- Carplus publishes review of Car Clubs in Scotland programme
- Universities & Colleges – Sustainable Transport Workshop, Jan 2013
- Green Vs Gold: marketing sustainable transport in austerity – Dumfries, 20 Nov 12
- Scottish Environment LINK Members Congress, Perthshire, 22 November 2012
- ChooseAnotherWay to work - driving business productivity and efficiency for improved resilience
- Research Project: Mobile and Flexible Working Programme
- End-of-Season BikeBoost commuter bikes Clearance Sale
- £100K green transport prize announced
- The Energy Saving Trust in Scotland can help businesses increase their cash flow
- Cycle Friendly & Sustainable Communities Fund / 12 January, 12
- SEStran ‘Smarter Access To Healthcare’ Seminar 28th October
- Discover the benefits of car-sharing at a Liftshare Week event
- Join our next websinar: Measuring Success in Feet: The Walk at Work Step Count Challenge on Thursday, 29th September at 2pm
- The My Travel Plan Tool’s Latest Developments
- Take a look at our useful online tools to help you develop and promote your Travel Plan
- If you missed any of our popular free webinars you can download recordings here
- Train vs. Plane - does travelling by train offer more advantages over air travel?
Welcome to Choose Another Way, the resource centre for organisations in Scotland wanting to reduce the costs, environmental impacts and duty of care risks associated with how we work and travel.
Mobility and the way we travel to the workplace, to meet clients, to transport goods and as part of daily operations can be a significant cost, source of emissions and area of corporate and occupational risk for your organisation.
The approaches found on this site can and should be tailored to the needs of your business, reflecting your corporate objectives, operational needs as well as best practice. The approaches we recommend will help you identify cost effective strategies for tackling travel-related issues, with a favourable payback period. This will enable you to unlock short and long term benefits and achieve greater business efficiency and resilience.
Mike Robinson – Chief Executive, Royal Scottish Geographical Society
Our small staff do not fly within the UK at all, and find we get far more convenience and efficient use of time by utilising train transport for these longer journeys. Almost all of our staff travel is by train, and we encourage our 'suppliers' to do the same wherever practicable. It sometimes requires a different way of thinking, but is less stressful, and we find it can increase productivity, as it can offer a break from constant reactive work pressures in the office.
Bernadette McKell, Director, Global Practice Lead – Acoustics, Aecom Ltd
Our own experience and that of our clients has shown that getting involved in 'Personalised Travel Planning' is not only a great way of reducing personal car use leading to improved congestion and a cleaner, greener environment; it's also fun and can enhance the health and general fitness of the workforce. We have been involved in projects on providing information, public transport tickets, pedometers and other incentives, all tailored and customised to the individual which has helped bring about a mode shift for journeys to work.
Scottish Environmental Protection Agency
SEPA recognises the value of employee involvement in reducing carbon emissions from travel. It is therefore embedding a culture of questioning the need to travel by providing a Travel Decision Tree, which helps identify travel solutions for employees' business needs. SEPA continues to develop a strategy to support more flexible and remote working – equipping employees with alternatives to travel, such as tele and video-conferencing, in all offices.
Brendan Dick, Director, BT Scotland
As you'd expect, we use ITC very effectively to reduce our travel footprint, and we calculate that conferencing as an alternative to travel saves us around £300 per employee per trip. Three quarters of our people work flexibly, cutting out unnecessary journeys, and we have 500 home workers in Scotland – each saving an average 1.4 tonnes of CO2e and approximately £6000 a year, mainly in reduced estate costs.
