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2. Objectives and Aspirations of the Travel Plan
2.1 Key Objectives
2.1.1 We are committed to providing deliverable short, medium and long term initiatives as part of the Scottish Government Travel Plan.
2.1.2 The Travel Plan takes account of the needs of staff and visitors as well as the corporate values of the Scottish Government. It also contains a number of longer term aspirational goals of national and local environmental, planning and transport policies.
2.1.3 The key objectives of the Travel Plan are:
- To reduce the need to travel;
- To increase awareness among staff of travel choices and their implications;
- To ensure that staff and visitors with mobility problems have their needs fully taken into account in travel policy and decision making;
- To ensure that safety and security issues are taken into account;
- To facilitate and promote more active modes of travel;
- To increase the percentage share of staff commuting to work by walking, cycling and using public transport;
- To reduce car use, in particular single occupancy car journeys by commuting staff;
- To introduce a parking system which supports the delivery of the other travel objectives;
- To maximise the efficiency of our fleet;
- To increase the percentage share of sustainable forms of transport on official business;
- To ensure the Travel Plan is embedded into existing corporate and departmental processes, costed and reviewed on a regular basis.
2.2 Aspirations of the Travel Plan
- In addition to these measures, there are a number of other actions which are likely to achieve a real change in people's attitudes and travel behaviour and which we will consider at future reviews of the travel policy. The next review is likely to be in 2010. These include giving consideration to a review of the motor mileage rate which takes into account green house gas emissions and air quality pollutants. It is important that staff replacing their cars be aware of this option well in advance of any possible implementation and this should give them another reason to consider more environmentally friendly options. We will also further review the position concerning the extent of parking at our buildings and how it is allocated. The provision of free parking is an incentive to use the car and a subsidy to drivers which non car users do not receive.
- Consideration will be given to the introduction of a 'green space' policy at our buildings. This policy would in practice give priority to pedestrians and cyclists over car users and may reduce the availability of parking spaces at some sites. Such changes would be aimed to improve the quality of our surroundings, assist with maximising the productivity of the workforce, encourage healthy work practices and increase social inclusion of staff.
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