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Workplace travel plan
Coordinator's guide
Print version: Workplace travel plan: coordinator's guide (PDF, 518 KB, 24 pages)
Introduction
Congratulations on getting this far in setting up a workplace travel plan. A workplace travel plan sets out steps to encourage staff to travel to and from work by public transport, on foot, by bike or by car share, and to improve access for a particular workplace.
Land Transport New Zealand has prepared this material to help you get a travel plan underway in your organisation. We know that the implementation of workplace travel plans can lead to happier, fitter and more productive employees, as well as providing real cost savings to workplaces.
Our statutory objective is to allocate resources and undertake functions in a way that contributes to an integrated, safe, responsive and sustainable land transport system.
By assisting workplaces to develop workplace travel plans, Land Transport NZ is contributing to the government's vision as set out in the New Zealand Transport Strategy (2002).
The objectives of the strategy are:
- assisting economic development
- assisting safety and personal security
- improving access and mobility
- protecting and promoting public health
- ensuring environmental sustainability.
Though there will be some variation across the country, most workplace travel plans will be developed by people working within the workplace, supported by staff at local councils and specially trained Land Transport NZ staff. This guide is primarily written for these people – the workplace travel plan coordinators.
This guide does not cover workplace selection, funding for design and implementation, and programme monitoring. These areas are usually managed by (regional or local) council employees and are not usually relevant to people within workplaces developing individual travel plans.
Land Transport NZ has had support from many agencies in developing this guide and would particularly like to acknowledge the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA) (who developed earlier versions of this document), New Zealand Police, Auckland Regional Transport Authority, North Shore City Council, Greater Wellington Regional Council and all the councils involved in travel planning in New Zealand.
Good luck with setting up your travel plan. Please let Land Transport NZ know how you get on.
Last updated: 9 July 2008