what does it involve?

A travel plan is a commitment to:

• Monitor present travel patterns
• Discover barriers to better movement
• Formulate objectives to remove them
• Implement action that meets the objectives
• Review progress and begin the process again

In this way the travel plan is never a ‘finished document’, meaning that effective buy-in is vital. Right from the top of your organisation, the travel plan must become part of your company ethos.

Defined roles and responsibilities are important too, especially the inclusion of a named co-ordinator to drive the process forward. For smaller companies this may simply consist of an existing staff member taking on the role on a part-time basis. Larger organisations will, however, require dedicated staff. Whatever the case, it is important that they are able to effectively engage with decision makers in the company.