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Improve Retention, Recruitment, And Morale By Offering Commuter Benefits

Commuter Connections provides complimentary information on a host of employer programs to assist your organization in determining which commuting options work best for your organization and your employees.

Whether your company is located in Tysons, Bethesda, or on Capitol Hill, you have a local Commuter Connections representative who knows your specific region and the programs available to assist your employees with their transportation needs. Your local representative will work on-site with you to help you realize the bottom-line benefits of commute alternatives.

How Commuter Connections Can Help Your Organization

Available Programs

Commuter Connections offers the following programs listed below. Employers may take advantage of these programs to provide their employees with alternative commute options. Commuter Connections Employer Services representatives can provide assistance with developing and implementing alternative commute programs and incentives for your organization. Additionally, your Employer Services representative will provide program follow-up and support to ensure that your initiatives are successful.

  • Telework program development
  • Transit information, including SmartBenefits
  • Bicycle commute program development
  • Work schedule alternatives development
  • Parking Management strategies based on an evaluation of  the current parking situation
  • Emergency Preparedness plan development
  • Air Quality Action Days program development
  • Guaranteed Ride Home program registration  and information
  • Computerized and Dynamic Ridematching for carpools and vanpools
  • Commuter Incentive Programs
  • On-site rideshare promotions and displays
  • New employee commute options  information
  • Corporate relocation assistance
  • Training an on-site transportation manager
  • Commuter program coordination with nearby companies

Available Services

Commuter Connections offers the following services to employers. These services provide important information to employers so that organizations can offer the most appropriate commuter solutions to their employees.

  • On-site transportation assessments
  • Confidential employee commute surveys
  • Mapping of employee residence patterns

How Your Employees Benefit from Commute Alternatives

  • Reduced commuting time and expenses
  • Reduced wear-and-tear on personal vehicles
  • Less stress
  • More productive time while riding to and from work
  • Flexible work schedules
  • Access to time-saving HOV lanes

How Your Company Benefits from Commute Alternatives

  • Improved employee productivity
  • Improved morale
  • Easier recruitment and retention
  • Reduced parking and office space needs and costs
  • Easier access and traffic flow at work site
  • Reduced absenteeism and late arrivals
  • Public recognition as a good corporate citizen

Our Advice: Start By Considering These Commuting Solutions

Many employers have found that providing incentives that make an employee’s commute to work easier benefit both the employee and the company. Incentives may cost very little or nothing at all. Here are a few examples of some of the incentives you can provide to your employees.

  • Have transit schedules, rideshare, and Guaranteed Ride Home information available to employees. Just having bus and rail information at the work site can be a tremendous help to employees, especially for those who do not use transit regularly. You never know when an employee may have to take their car in for repairs or when the area will get hit by a snowstorm. Having transit information available means employees can easily use other commute options when they cannot use their own vehicle.
  • Preferential parking for carpools and vanpools. Reserve the parking spaces closest to the door as an incentive for carpools and vanpools. Or, if employees must pay for parking, offer a free space for carpools and vanpools.
  • Host a commuting information day. Commuter Connections staff will come to your office and set up an information table in your lobby, cafeteria, or other high-activity areas. This allows employees to ask questions and receive information about their specific commute.
  • Provide equitable parking and transit incentives. If your company offers free or reduced rate parking for employees, why not offer comparable incentives for employees who use transit? Give employees a choice between the parking incentive and the transit incentive. SmartBenefits is the easy way to offer a transit incentive. If you lease parking space, you may even save money by offering a transit incentive. Employers can also load the value of employee’s tax-free commute benefit onto a SmarTrip card through the SmartBenefits program

Calculate Your Impacts

Offering commuter benefits at your workplace could help achieve sustainability goals. Use our Vehicle Miles Travelled (VMT) calculator to quantify your efforts reduce the number of miles driven by your employees, and the total annual gallons of gasoline saved.

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