Incentives, Estates & Facilities Management and Smarter Working

Provision of facilities and incentives, and raising awareness, can enable and encourage your staff to explore more efficient, stress-free ways to travel. Productivity can also be increased by cutting unnecessary travel and and by enabling them to use their travelling time through portable IT equipment.

Doors Financial measures are amongst the most effective ways of influencing travel behaviour, especially when you take care to maximise opportunities for smarter travel choices when they arise. Read more about incentives such as subsided bus tickets or bicycle purchasing schemes [.pdf] and promoting local, national and internal sustainable transport initiatives (such as Bike Week, the Somerset Car Share Scheme and the Once A Week campaign) [.pdf]

Canteen On-site facilities can reduce the lunchtime rush and help people feel more comfortable at work. Read more about facilities you could explore providing at your workplace [.pdf]

Teleconferencing Recent advances in IT have removed some of the need for physical meetings. Read more about the ways you can reduce the need to travel and save on staff time and travel costs [.pdf]

Hot desk As well as lessening the need for office staff to commute, remote-working techniques can also reduce the need for mobile or outdoor-based staff to travel into a fixed or central place of work on a regular basis purely to check emails, pick up job details etc. Read more about flexible and home working [.pdf]

Learn more by downloading the Encourage section of the Manual for Travel Plans for our full help document on incentives, estates and facilities management and smarter working [.pdf 2.61MB].