Green Travel Plans What is a Green Travel Plan?A Green Travel Plan is a suite of initiatives and activities to promote sustainable transport options such as walking, cycling, carpooling and public transport and to encourage people to use these options to replace some of their car journeys. A Green Travel Plan assists an organisation to systematically investigate transport options across the whole organisation and assess where more sustainable transport alternatives may be used. A Green Travel Plan is a dynamic document, which will develop over time depending on the environment and circumstances of the organisation. Implementing a Green Travel Plan can create a number of social, economic, environmental and health benefits to the organisation, staff, visitors and the wider community. Why implement a Green Travel Plan?Traffic congestion, parking problems, greenhouse gas emissions and fuel prices are a few of the reasons why organisations choose to implement Green Travel Plans. But you don't need to be experiencing problems before you think about implementing a Green Travel Plan. A key aspect of the Green Travel Plan is that individuals need only change a few of their solo car journeys to sustainable forms of transport to have a marked impact on their health, traffic congestion and greenhouse gas emissions. The Green Travel Plan guide is a step-by-step resource for organisations wanting to develop and implement their own Green Travel Plans, with the primary focus on commuter travel to and from workplaces.
To obtain a hard copy of the Guide contact Council's TravelSmart Team on: Phone: 07 5475 7272
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