What is a Travel Plan?
Tailored to the specific needs of your organisation, staff, clients and visitors, Travel Plans are integrated packages of measures designed to promote more sustainable transport choices. The overall aim is to reduce the impact of transport activity on the environment; deliver cost and time savings and productivity benefits.
A Travel Plan is a detailed description of:
- how people will travel to and from an organisation's premises
- how employees, products and supplies will be transported
- how an organisation will seek to reduce its overall transport needs
- targets for change and arrangements for monitoring progress
- how information on progress will be disseminated
- how the Travel Plan will be promoted to staff, visitors and suppliers
A Travel Plan is not just another document to be drawn up, printed out and kept on a shelf for reference.
It is an active process that responds to changes in circumstances and builds on past successes.
Successful Travel Plans set targets for changes in travel behaviour and make provisions for them to be monitored regularly so that progress can be assessed.
In this way, measures chosen to promote more sustainable travel can be adjusted for maximum effect and new measures introduced to supplement those already in place.
