The Department for Transport is calling for evidence from businesses on ‘alternatives to travel’ as the Government wants to encourage people to make journeys by sustainable, low carbon, modes of transport, but it also wants to encourage the use of alternatives such as home working, staggered hours and video-conferencing.
The Call for Evidence is part of a programme to encourage individuals and businesses to use alternatives to travel to work where they feel these would be appropriate. The Call for Evidence seeks contributions from a wide range of businesses, sectors, organisations and individuals, which document experiences and impacts of, and the future potential for, using alternatives to travel. In addition, the Government is interested to hear from those not currently making use of such alternatives about the reasons behind this.
The Call for Evidence will inform the development of a longer term strategy on alternatives to travel by focussing on measures which can reduce travel for work (commuting and business trips) or which can help reduce travel for work during peak times. Therefore the travel alternatives the Government are seeking to investigate, include: home working and remote working; flexible working and staggered hours (in order to reduce travel during peak periods); teleconferencing and videoconferencing and any other alternatives to travel which can help reduce work-related travel.
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