Travel Plan
Trains
Trains are one of the most sustainable forms of travel. And when combined with a lap top and flexible working can dramatically reduce the unproductive time associated with travel.
Promoting Train Travel
In promoting Train travel in your travel plan it is important to:
- Be positive about train travel
- Have recent train travel experience yourself
- Know where the nearest station is and ways of getting to it.
- Know which train operators serve your nearest station and have timetables easily available
- Have a good knowledge of the range of tickets available. Train travel can be cheaper than a quick search may indicate
You could consider offering:
- A free breakfast to train users once a year.
- Loans for season purchase
- Free train travel for the first month.
- Longer term discounts
- Offering the use of a laptop to use on the train.
To facilitate this:
- Join Travel for Work for help and support
- Develop a good relationship with the train operators
- Contact your business neighbours to see if there are any joint initiatives that you could implement
- Take up any complaints from your staff with the train operators
