Travel Planning and Travel Demand Management
Travel Demand Management (TDM) is a collection of actions
designed to address congestion issues and deliver
sustainable transport solutions. Typical TDM activities
focus on: walking, cycling, bus, train, ferry, car pooling,
working from home and freight movements.
School Travel Plans
and Workplace Travel Plans are being implemented in
Waitakere City now.
For more information on School
Travel Plans click here
What is a workplace travel plan?
Waitakere City Council has adopted the following
definition for workplace travel plans:
A package of measures that aim to reduce the
number of car journeys and provide people with greater
transport choice.
The aim of a workplace travel plan is to increase the use
of buses, trains, cycles and other sustainable transport
options and reduce dependency on the car for commuting and
business journeys. Travel plans can also help to reduce, or
eliminate unnecessary journeys. Workplace travel plans can
address all aspects of an organisation’s transport-related
activities and in addition to improving the management of
commuting and business travel; they can also look at better
ways of making and receiving deliveries and managing the
fleet.
Waitakere Central Travel Plan: on the go!
The Waitakere Central travel plan was designed and
implemented over an eight month period. This travel plan is
the first TravelWise workplace travel plan in Waitakere and
is one of the first workplace travel plans to be completed
in line with the TravelWise process. The travel plan process
was completed in September 2006 and is gaining national
interest as an example of best practice in workplace travel
planning.
A key result of the travel plan is that six months later,
eighteen per cent more staff are now using sustainable
transport – like carpooling, public transport, walking or
cycling – than they did before the travel plan was
introduced.
To find out more about the Council’s travel plan, a case
study document is available.
The ARTA TravelWise process
The Auckland Regional Transport Authority (ARTA) assists
workplaces to implement travel plans by reducing the cost to
the organisation of delivering them. ARTA provides high
value “travel plan tools” such as a business case tool,
online surveys (and analysis) as well as a personal journey
planning campaign and passenger transport information.
Further tools, including Rideshare carpooling software, are
being piloted in 2007. Providing these tools enables
workplace travel plans to be delivered more cheaply and
helps to ensure quality. The TravelWise workplace process
was developed to assist with a ‘skills gap’ in designing and
implementing travel plans. The TravelWise process is
supported by training courses and networking opportunities.
More information on TravelWise can be found at
http://www.travelwise.org.nz/Workplaces/
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