Green Travel Plans

What is a Green Travel Plan?

A Green Travel Plan is a suite of initiatives, activities and actions to encourage travel behaviour change. Having a Green Travel Plan is a valuable resource used to promote and encourage people to choose sustainable transport options such as walking, cycling, car pooling and public transport.

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.

Your Green Travel Plan is a dynamic document, which will change over time depending on the environment and circumstances of your organisation. Implementing such a Plan brings a number of social, economic, environmental and health benefits to the organisation and to 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 weekly single occupancy motor vehicle trips to sustainable forms of transport to have a marked impact on their health, traffic congestion and greenhouse gas emissions.

The Green Travel Plan Guide

The Green Travel Plan guide is a resource for organisations wanting to develop and implement their own Green Travel Plans. The contents take you step-by-step through the process with the primary focus on commuter travel to and from workplaces.

The Green Travel Plan Guide (5.6MB)
Before Travel Survey Tool (4.17MB)
Site Assessment Tool (224KB)
Sample Green Travel Plan (8.2MB)
Sample Workplace Agreement (601KB)