The Travel Plan

BT has voluntarily developed a travel plan for Adastral Park, working with Suffolk County Council and ITP travel consultants.

The aim of the travel plan is to encourage a change in the way in which employees and visitors travel to Adastral Park for more sustainable and healthy modes of travel.

The plan covers both commuting as well as business travel, with measurements to reduce the need to travel by promoting different transport modes, including more use of teleconferencing and video conferencing facilities.

The Adastral Park Travel Plan, Grass Routes, is based on the results of an online survey sent to all employees on the site in the Autumn 2007. The plan supports walking, cycling, public transport and car sharing, promoting these alternatives to single occupancy car journeys.

Our key objectives are

1. Reduce single car occupant trips to Adastral Park
2. Improve conditions for walking, cycling and public transport, and increase the number of trips made by these modes
3. Increase the proportion and efficiency of business trips made by sustainable modes
4. To reduce the need for travel for both commuting and business trips
5. Increase the proportion of visitors to Adastral Park travelling by sustainable modes
6. To contribute towards the improved health and well being of staff through the promotion of healthy travel options
7. To improve environmental standards at Adastral Park and assist with BT’s wider Corporate Social Responsibility targets
8. Support the Adastral Park Site Development vision of being a truly 21st Century sustainable development.

The overarching targets for the agreed travel strategies are to achieve a 5% reduction in Single Occupancy Vehicle use for commuting and business travel in the short term (i.e. by 2010) and a further 5% reduction in the long term (a total 10% reduction by 2012).

These targets will be regularly monitored by the workplace Travel Plan Manager against the baseline data gathered by the Adastral Park Employee Travel Survey 2007.

If you wish to find out more or to get involved to help shape the measures then please email adastral.travel@bt.com.

Andrew Cassy
Travel Plan Manager for Adastral Park

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