Management Understanding and Support

Enabling your employees to be more flexible in their choice of transport on business or while commuting can increase productivity, cut travel costs and improve staff recruitment and retention.

You could consider restricting expense claims for very short journeys that could easily be carried out by other means. Or, you could introduce a business travel choice hierarchy where employees must demonstrate they have considered a hierarchy of travel choices before they claim back expenses for using their car. Read more about travel expense payments/approval and travelling on business [.pdf]

All corporate policies need to be sending the right signals throughout the organisation, influencing the culture of the organisation and 'the way we do things round here'. Read more about well documented and integrated travel policies [.pdf].

Learn more about providing management support and understanding for smarter travel by downloading the Exemplify section of the Manual for Travel Plans for our full help document [.pdf 1016KB].

Learn more about flexible and home working policies on our Encourage page.

Case studies

Setting a good corporate example when it comes to smarter travel choices:

• Sanders Garden World, Highbridge [.pdf, 535KB]