BSIP: Environmental policy

Summary:

• Half of all respondents report that their organisations’ environmental policy includes ‘encouraging people to use public transport’
• A third of respondents whose organisational environmental policy does not include encouragement for people to use public transport would consider including it
• A quarter would not consider its inclusion and 42% are undecided
• Environmental policies that encourage staff to use public transport are encouraging a range of forms of public transport; ‘train’ (67%), ‘bus’ (58%), ‘ferry’ (42%) and ‘other’ (25%)
• The majority of respondents report that their business does not have a cheaper public transport scheme (83%)
• Schemes include staff getting free ferry travel, assistance in the purchase of travel cards, partner deals between transport operators, and running a bus for employee use

An asterisk (*) indicates a very small base size, caution should be taken when interpreting the results

Base: Business respondents (24*) | *caution small base

This chart shows that half of all respondents report that their organisations’ environmental policy includes ‘encouraging people to use public transport’

Base: Those whose environmental policy does not include encouragement for people to use public transport (12*) | *caution small base

This chart shows that A third of respondents whose organisational environmental policy does not include encouragement for people to use public transport would consider including it. It also shows that a quarter would not consider its inclusion and that 42% are undecided.

Base: Those whose environmental policy does include encouragement for people to use public transport (12*) | *caution small base

This chart shows that environmental policies that encourage staff to use public transport are encouraging a range of forms of public transport; ‘train’ (67%), ‘bus’ (58%), ‘ferry’ (42%) and ‘other’ (25%) and that half of environmental policies that do encourage use of public transport do not specify which form.

Base: Business respondents  (24*) | *caution small base

The majority of respondents report that their business does not have such a cheaper public transport scheme (83%) and existent schemes include staff getting free ferry travel, assistance in the purchase of travel cards, partner deals between transport operators, and running a bus for employee use.