Transportation & Trip Reduction
Intercity Transit’s mission is to provide and promote public transportation choices that support an accessible, sustainable, livable, healthy, and prosperous community. We’ll help you design a transportation program that offers bus riding, carpooling, vanpooling, walking, bicycling, and other commute options for your employees. We’ll provide transportation events and promotional materials to help you promote this employee benefit.
Businesses start transportation programs so they can:
- Reduce demand for employee parking spaces.
- Create affordable employee benefits.
- Improve employee productivity, attendance, and on-time arrival.
- Reach a wider labor pool and retaining employees.
- Take advantage of state and federal tax breaks.
- Tackle congestion and environmental concerns as a community leader.
- Comply with the Commute Trip Reduction law.
- Reduce their tax burden — check out Commuter Choice benefits and see how you can save money while helping employees pay for transit and vanpooling.
Employees reap several benefits:
- Dependable, affordable transportation to and from work.
- Less wear-and-tear on their cars.
- More money in their pockets – thanks to lower commuting costs.
- More time to relax, read, or chat during their commutes.
- Arriving on time without the stress of fighting traffic congestion or circling the parking lot.
- Feeling good about keeping their cars at home and the air a little cleaner.
- Potential tax savings.
Green Resources
Transportation
Resources for employers from Intercity Transit:
http://www.intercitytransit.com/programs/commuter/Pages/ResourcesforEmployers.aspx
General
EPA website: http://www.epa.gov/
EPA Climate Change Calculator:http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/wycd/waste/calculators/WARM_Form.html
Sustainable Resources Magazine: http://www.sustainableindustries.com/resources