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and the use of public transport for staff, students and visitors travelling to the RCMsites through:Sustainable travel support for staff and studentsIncorporating public transport information into prospectuses, brochures, eventsguides and other publicity material;Incorporating public transport information and links to public interest travelinformation sites on the RCM’s website;Supporting Transport for London to reduce vehicle usage and carbon emissionsin London. The RCM has no owned vehicles and uses bicycle and or motorcyclecouriers for the collection and delivery of packages within central London;Providing appropriate shower facilities within the RCM which are accessible to allstaff and students.Sustainable travel support for staffActively encouraging the use of public transport by staff through the provision ofinterest free annual season ticket loans to all staff travelling to work by train, tube orbus subject to the staff member. A bicycle interest free loan scheme is also in placeas an alternative to the annual season ticket loan;The College uses Addison Lee taxis, for unavoidable taxi travel. The company useauto-allocation technology that has enabled Addison Lee to achieve a 30% reductionin carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per journey between 2002 and 2008. A further3.4% CO2 reduction per journey was achieved in 2009-10. For 2010-11, Addison Leeestimates that it has cut fleet CO2 emissions by 10% through a combination of finetuningthe auto-allocation software and continuing a rolling program of fleetrenewal, whereby older vehicles are replaced by newer models with lower exhaustemissions. 3Sustainable travel support for studentsThe Mayor of London, actively supports students in the UK to use public transportthrough the provision of student discount cards, these are planned to be madeavailable from the RCM Student Association.Sustaining bicycle travel for staff and studentsProviding to those staff wishing to cycle to work with an option of purchasing abicycle on an interest free loan of up to £750 for the purchase of or paymenttowards a bicycle subject to the staff member as an alternative to season ticketloans;Lockers to store change of clothes/cycling equipment are available acrosscampus.16
Reducing the use of private vehiclesThere is no parking available on campus.The College does not run any vehicles.At the halls of residence, there are twenty parking spaces but these are presentlyunderutilised with only five spaces being used by students for the academic year2008/09. Allocation of car parking is free.In the planned development of the halls of residence, the parking facilities willaim to be reduced by 80%. The College will consider establishing a scheme tocharge a fee for using the remainder of the parking facilities with the revenueinvested in the improving cycle park facilities and encouragement of walking.Provision for maintenance / deliveries / collections (Service management plan)Deliveries and collections will be arranged to avoid peak periods of traffic andpedestrian activity.Vehicles blocking refuse collection access will be noted and persistent offenderswill be advised of the cost and environmental impact of additional collectionattempts.Future TargetsThe College is always looking for new initiatives that will help reduce carbonemissions resulting from travel of staff and students. Planned targets to achieve by2014 in line with the Environmental Policy include:To encourage staff travelling on RCM business to use public transport;To promote low carbon emission transport choices when travelling on businessto represent the College and investigating the ways in which the impacts of anyremaining travel can be minimised and/or off-set; to complete by 2014Raising awareness amongst staff, students and visitors of the impacts of leisureand business travel decisions including air pollution, climate change and roadsafety;To make staff aware of the negative environmental impact of aviation andprovide access to alternative options for personal leisure travel, holidays and forcarbon emission mitigation when booking flights; September 2013Promoting the use of low carbon emission transport for staff, students andvisitors beyond the RCM campus, in particular during vacation times forinternational students (reducing air travel and off-setting carbon emissions);To provide secure bicycle storage units with easy, safe access from the entranceto the building. The College will aim to increase the provision of showers, bicyclestorage and other relevant facilities at campus and hall of residence locations, inconjunction with the relevant local authorities where appropriate; January 2012onwardsTo publicise the main cycling routes between halls of residence and RCMcampus; re-advertised every September17
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