ARTA Annual Report 2009 - Auckland Transport

Cheaper than a gym membership: Nick, Tom and Wally from North Shore
City Council avoid traffic congestion and save money by kayaking to work.
TravelWise – resources and advice for workplace travel plans
There are 34 organisations in Auckland that have a workplace travel plan. Besides universities, these include
councils, banks, hotels and other corporates. ARTA shares its knowledge and experience to get organisations
on board with their travel plans.
Our resource kit contains advice and tools, such as a cost/benefit calculator and a travel survey, that help
organisations to develop individual travel plans to get people out of cars and onto public transport, cycling
or walking.
A Guaranteed Ride Home (GRH) programme has been piloted at TravelWise workplaces this past year.
GRH programmes offer a taxi ride home or to other relevant destinations (e.g. schools, medical facilities)
for employees that used a sustainable travel option to commute to work on the day of the emergency.
Acting essentially as an insurance programme, GRH schemes overseas have proven to be an extremely
cost-effective approach to both attracting new public transport customers and maintaining or increasing
use of the network by existing customers.
Car pooling software is being developed for the MAXX website, as a further transport option.
RESULT: The 2008 annual review found that there were 355 fewer car trips to work at the
five workplaces with the most advanced travel plans (including Auckland Airport), plus
the 1,127 fewer trips to the CBD universities. The 2016 ARLTS goal is for 3,500 fewer car
trips in the morning peak due to workplace and tertiary travel plans.
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