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Join TfW - it's FREE!

TfW member employers become entitled to many free services that can help make your travel plan as effective as possible.  Full Members and Associate Members receive slightly different membership benefits. See the Membership information sheet for further information.  See Full TfW employers for the full member employers list.

Join TfW - it's EASY!

First get in touch to discuss your situation (click here for contact details). Following this you will be invited to write to us requesting membership - and its as easy as that!

TfW Services

See below to know more about the TfW services available to you. You can also click here to download the services information sheet.

1. TfW Discounts

2. Site Visits

3. Travel Plan Awards

4. Email Network

5. Travel Surveys

6. Mapping

7. Car Sharing - Camshare

8. Cycle Training - Bikeability

9. Cycle Purchase Tax Free Scheme

10. TfW Network Meetings

11. Work Life Balance/Flexible Working

12. Display Board Downloadable Information

1. TfW Discounts!

Travel for Work has negotiated significant discounts on train season ticket travel, cycle shops' discounts and bicycle training and maintenance sessions.  TfW employers, and their commuters, are eligible for as much as 15% off of some services.

Go to our Discounts page for more details.

2. Site Visits

Once you have made contact with us one of the TfW team will arrange to come and visit you. This fact-finding visit will allow us to provide you with the best bespoke advice. If you’d like us to arrange a visit please contact us.

3. Workplace Travel Plan Awards Scheme

Awardees at Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Travel Plan Awards Jan 2011

To read about the 2011 Awards click here.

All new TfW members automatically join the TfW email network. You will receive regular emails from the TfW team that help the production and maintenance of workplace travel plans.

The Annual TfW Survey takes place during in October. It is a valuable tool to anyone developing or monitoring the progress of a travel plan.

This is a free service for full members of Travel for Work. For more information about the survey please call TfW on 01223 715550.

For information on the 2011 survey and results from previous surveys, go to:

Survey Information & Results

One-off surveys

If you are beginning to look at travel issues for your site it is most useful to understand how your people are traveling to work at the present time.

TfW can offer you a one-off survey that will collect data for a complete week. The results can be used to benchmark existing activity against future survey results.  When the survey period has closed, we will produce a report for you that indicates not just the percentage split between each mode of transport, but many additional details. Click here to see a generic version of a TfW travel survey.

The bespoke survey gives you the opportunity of asking questions specific to your organisation - we can provide example survey questions used by other organisations as required.  Please contact the TfW team on 01223 715550 for more information.

Cost

TfW has to make a charge of £150 for a one-off survey.

6. Mapping home postcodes

Mapping the home locations of your staff is a most effective travel planning tool. TfW can produce three large A1 size maps and electronic versions (pdf) that may be used in any travel plan literature you produce.

Up to three maps can be produced (the final number depends on the number of employees and site locations for each organisation):

• Map 1 - shows all staff that live within a forty mile radius of the site.  This may be used to identify the potential for staff to use other travel modes, such as longer distance buses, trains and clusters for car sharing. 
• Map 2 - shows all staff living within 1 and 5 miles of your site, and is overlaid with a bus service map and bus stops.  This may be used to identify the potential for staff to use public transport.
• Map 3 - shows all staff living within 1 and 5 miles of your site, and is overlaid with the local cycle network and relevant rights of way for commuting. This may be used to identify the potential for staff to travel to work by active travel modes, such as walking and cycling.

Download example maps here (may take a minute or two to download):

• a generic version of all employees 40 mile radius
• a generic version of the five mile map - bus services and bus stops
• a generic version of the five mile map - Rights of Way, Cycle Routes & Rail Station

Why mapping is useful

Mapping is very powerful and gives you the ability to target for best wins (eg there is little point in promoting walking if no one lives within walking distance or the train if no one lives on a train route.)

Staff find the maps of great interest. Often they do not know how many of their colleagues live near them or how close they live to cycling routes. The benefits of car sharing, bus/train use etc can become more clear.

Data protection

We map postcodes with the last character removed. This is accurate enough for travel plan purposes and ensures individual properties are not identified.

HR can usually provide an excel spread sheet of the postcodes in this format - if not we can remove the last character for you.

Cost

There is a cost of £170 for a set of maps for one employer site. We are happy to discuss the costs for more complicated maps with you.

7. Car sharing & CamShare

Car sharing is a very effective way of reducing the number of cars accessing your site. There are a number of ways you can encourage car sharing.

Our Car Sharing leaflet gives some good ideas [for up to date costings go to www.camshare.co.uk].

CamShare.co.uk

TfW together with Cambridgeshire County Council has developed an online car share matching scheme 'CamShare'. We have appointed Liftshare.com to run the scheme.

CamShare is an effective internet-based car sharing database.

CamShare is FREE to members of the public who can search for both car sharers and cycle journey sharing.

Businesses may find it effective to set up a 'private group' that allows contact between employees via work addresses and provides access to impressive statistical and monitoring data. To see how much this might cost - click here to see the Business pages on the website and if you are interested contact Liftshare direct.

Businesses promoting car sharing are recommended to set-up a Guaranteed Ride Home (GRH) service.  We have provided more details below, as well as some useful templates which you can download and adapt as much as necessary to be relevant to your own GRH scheme:  

1) More details about GRH schemes – Guaranteed Ride Home Information

2) Are they worth having – and how much do they cost?  Other schemes

3) Information for members wishing to use the GRH scheme – template Guidelines - members

4) Instructions for person operating the GRH scheme – template – process for help desk template

5) Application form for a guaranteed ride home – template application form

Businesses with private CamShare groups may like to use the editable promotional poster.  Please note the poster is in pdf format and you require Adobe Acrobat Writer to be able to edit.

Businesses without a private CamShare group may like to promote the website for free public use and download a flyer for this purpose.

Promotions

CamShare Week is 3 - 7 October (part of Liftshare Week) and there are promotional posters and a flyer available for you to download at our news page

Prize Draws

TfW runs regular prize draws to promote CamShare see TfW news page to see if one is currently running.

BUDi Teams

TfW encourages CamShare members to set up BUDi teams once they start sharing their journey.  For information on how to set up a BUDi Team click here.

CamShare Month 2010

Check out what happened during the 2010 CamShare month here.

Please let TfW know about your car sharing  anecdotes to be used in newsletters etc. 

8.Adult Cycle Training

- Bikeability

Getting your employees back on their bikes to commute to work can be difficult, even in cycle friendly and flat Cambridgeshire! Adult cycle training (ACT) could be the answer. There are local providers Outspoken and freelance trainers available see DfT website 'Bikeability' http://www.dft.gov.uk/bikeability/the-three-levels/cycling-skills-for-adults/ (This scheme, is no longer run by Cambridgeshire County Council).

Go to our Discounts page to find out more about Outspoken's discount offer.

Whether your people have never cycled before or need confidence to cycle with traffic, cycle training will help them become fitter, happier and wealthier.

9. Cycle to Work Tax Free Schemes

10. TfW Network Meetings