Personalized Travel Plans in the Workplace: A Case-Study

Workplaces are facing the challenge of sustainable auditing and reducing land dedicated to car parking. Personalised travel plans (PTPs) enable employees to evaluate the full range of alternatives to the car for their journey to work. However, the uptake and effectiveness of such a service may be strongly influenced by the social and organisational context of individual workplaces. This paper draws out findings on the importance of social context from a case-study of user involvement in the development of an innovative, web-based tool to generate PTPs (‘myPTP’). Interviews were held with the innovators, with travel coordinators and with users of the tool in three pilot organisations. Travel coordinators saw the PTP tool from the perspective of a corporate strategy to reduce CO2 emissions - in some cases as a ‘carrot’ to balance the ‘stick’ of higher parking charges. Among some employees, this made it a focal point for dissatisfaction with employers’ wider transport measures. However, staff involved in change management saw it as an effective way of informing employees, often promoting its diffusion within workplace practice. The findings offer a number of good practice points to designers of innovative transport tools, and organisations interested in taking them up.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE50 Transportation Demand Management. Alternate title: Personalized Travel Plans in the Workplace: Case Study.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Authors:
  • Bartle, Caroline
  • Avineri, Erel
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC
  • Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
• Date: 2014

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 12p
• Monograph Title: TRB 93rd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Employees; Employers; Social factors; Web applications; Work trips
• Uncontrolled Terms: Employee travel plans; Personalized traveler information; Web-based systems
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01514311
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 14-0858
• Files: PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 12 2014 12:33PM