
Your employer may need a business case before it adopts a Travel Plan. To build a solid business case you can emphasise that travel plans:
- Helps to overcome parking problems.
- Contributes towards the health and wellbeing of employees, by encouraging walking and cycling, and reducing commuting stressand absenteeism.
- Assists in recruitment and retention.
- Improves accessibility to your workplace for potential and existing employees and makes savings on recruitment expenses.
- Helps to achieve your own organisation's environmental or corporate social responsibility policies.
- Enhances your organisation's environmental image, and works towards the ISO 14001 standard which aims to reduce employers' environmental footprints.
- Contributes to planning permission applications, for which a Travel Plan is required.
- Makes your organisation eligible for the annual West of England travel plan awards.
- Helps take advantage of government tax incentives such as the 'Cycle to Work' salary sacrifice scheme.