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Dear reader, In the last e-update information could be found on mobility management for companies. The National Focus Points in France, UK, Sweden, The Netherlands and Spain have spent some time discussing a related topic in November, namely, mobility management for administrations. As any employer they must consider the most efficient actions to influence the mobility behaviour of their staff. Next to that, administrations should set an example to other companies and organisations. On EPOMM you can read what mobility management includes for administrations. In this e-Update we provide you with some examples of recent developments, research or striking initiatives. On the EPOMM website you can find regularly updated case studies and interesting examples on mobility management for companies and administrations. We would appreciate feedback on the e-update and the website; also feel free to forward it to other persons so they have the possibility to subscribe. If you do not want to receive the e-update any more, please unsubscribe. If the format of the e-update on your screen is not OK, please click here to see the full screen version.
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The situation in Spain |
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In Spain there is no regulation regarding Mobility Management for Administrations.
Like in any other work place, MM management measures are only taken at their own initiative.
In the framework of the European Project SUNRISE, the city of Terrasa, has developed a flexible transport service based on advanced car-pooling service for Terrassa's City Council staff. More details on Terrassa's car-pooling scheme can be found here. After the project completion, the initiative was expanded to serve, first other large companies located in the city, and finally the whole city population by means of a car-pooling service open to all citizens (http://www.compartir.org/terrassa).
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The situation in the Netherlands |
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The City of Alkmaar was an early adaptor of 'Mobility Mixx', now a daughter company of a large car lease company.
Mobility Mixx provides services for business trips. Users get personal travel advice which compares car and public transport
(time and costs). With the mobility card they can make use of public transport, taxi, OV-fiets, parking facilities near
railway stations and pool cars. When all pool cars are in use, rental cars are put in place. With Mobility Mixx employees
have a personal freedom to make use of the most fitting travel options. Moreover, one important reason to travel to work
by car disappears: (incidental) business trips. The results for the City of Alkmaar: in business trips the number of car
trips decrease with 23% (train: + 127%). The trips made by car are made in clean pool cars. The use of public transport
and biking to work increased, so less parking space is required.
Experiences of the city of Alkmaar on http://www.mobilitymixx.nl
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The situation in the UK |
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Nottingham City Council is in the same position as many local authorities.
It is competing against neighbouring councils for staff and has to attract and keep
workers in a market brimming with major firms. The council has responded by developing
a benefits package and promoting attractive flexible working options. In October 2005,
Nottingham launched its new benefits package, 'Works Perks'. The scheme offered staff
many benefits previously unheralded in the public sector. Tax-free initiatives are paid
for out of the employee's salary before they are taxed. Staff could get:
Nottingham City Council were aware that they needed to keep their benefits scheme alive. With marketing partners P&MM, they developed another tax-free benefit: 'Greentravel2work', which offers employees savings on bus travel to work. Further, the Employee Citycard can be used for greentravel2work bus travel on Nottingham City Transport. In addition it allows staff to obtain discounts on products from over 90 different firms. Works Perks also offers traditional flexible working options. Many employees consider this to be of real help for their work-life balance. Based on: http://www.idea.gov.uk Works Perks-flyer: http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/worksperksflyer.pdf More information on Green Travel 2 work: http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk
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The situation in Austria |
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There is no legal obligation to implement MM plans for administrations. The main supportive programme for MM in Austria is
klima:aktiv mobil. It is an Austrian initiative for climate protection, launched by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry,
Environment and Water Management. It has several programmes:
The programme for public administrations offers the following:
Public administrations and utilities in six Austrian "Länder" (provinces) are already implementing mobility management successfully. A general problem is that , MM measures "only" focussing on employees (their commuting and business trips) seem to bring relatively low CO2 emissions reduction figures. This changes as soon as the vehicle fleet of an administration is concerned (fuel switch and/or more energy efficient vehicles). In public administrations it usually takes longer than in private enterprises until MM measures are tackled/implemented (due to more complicated decision finding processes) But MM in public administrations is nonetheless important for its "role model function" Link to the programme: www.klimaaktivmobil.at (in German language only)
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The situation in France |
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In France, a regional French agency based in Paris, ARENE
has set up a guide on recommendations on implementing a mobility plan for administrations with many examples
and case studies. It puts a very clear description of the French legal context and promotes the objectives
at stake and the good results that can be reached. The on-line guide will be available soon.
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Talked about… |
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"Mobility management at the destination (the last urban mile) for long distance travellers is one of the priority challenges to increase intermodality." LINK Working Group Meeting on 'Last Urban Mile', Utrecht, the Netherlands 26 November 2007. LINK, the European Forum on Intermodal Passenger Travel will be focusing more on this issue the coming years.
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