Managing Commuters' Behaviour
Subtitle: A New Role for Companies
By: European Conference of Ministers of Transport
Series: ECMT Round Tables -- no.121
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]:
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9789282113004
Subjects: Transportation
Description: Encouraging wage earners to use public transport has a vital role to play in meeting environmental objectives, particularly the challenge of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Changing people's behaviour calls for action in the workplace and one option open to employers is to recruit mobility managers whose task is to help reduce employees' dependence on private car use. Governments can support such initiatives by running information campaigns, by publishing practical guides to incentive schemes and by harmonising regulatory and fiscal frameworks. Round Table 121 was devoted to this innovative topic and opened with a discussion of the provision of free parking facilities to company employees in the United States, a practice that has many knock-on effects and ramifications. One solution is for companies to replace free parking with cash-out schemes under which financial benefits are given to employees who choose not to make use of their free parking space. The Round Table then proceeded to consider several examples of employee mobility schemes in Europe, and ended by drawing conclusions of interest to local, regional and national authorities.
Table of contents: title: Successful Approaches to Environment and Economy - Company Management of Staff's Travel Choices by Robert Thaler, Max Herry, Markus Schuster, Mermann Knoflacher, and Michael Schopf of Austria; title: Parking Cash Out by Donald C. Shoup, United States; title: Company Management of Staff's Travel Choices in the UK by Tom Rye, United Kingdom Report by J. Whitelegg, United Kingdom; title: Financial Measures Are Necessary but Not Efficient by H. Knoflacher, Austria; title: Company Management of Staff's Commuting Choices: An Economic View by R. Darbera, France; title: Parking and Access Policy in Swiss Development Areas: The Cases of Zurich North and Siemens Zug by P. Guller and R. De Tommasi; title: Summary of Discussions; title: List of Participants