APPENDIX ONE
TRAVEL PLAN FOR EALING
The London Borough of Ealing is to implement a Travel Plan for its staff over the next
three years to help reduce traffic congestion around its offices and to improve the air
quality in Ealing. Travel Plans are increasingly common practice for large employers,
including a number of other London Boroughs. As a council, Ealing currently requires
large employers to provide travel plans in conjunction with planning approvals. Thus it
is important that Ealing “leads by example” in developing and implementing its own
Travel Plan.
The development of a Travel Plan could bring a variety of benefits to the Council
including:

Improving the health both of council staff, through healthier travel patterns, and of
residents through improved air quality from reduced emissions from vehicles.

Reducing the car parking requirements (and associated costs) of the council.

Enhanced image of the council, which can act as a leader in working with other
employers to develop their own travel plans.
Targets and Monitoring
To make a Travel Plan effective it is important to ensure that the plan includes
ambitious but achievable targets. A staff travel survey has recently been undertaken
which included data on current staff travel patterns. The survey found that the most
popular mode of travel used by people travelling to work was by car without the use of
a parking permit (26%), followed by bus (19%) then by car with a parking permit (16%).
Of the reasons for travelling to work by car the main reasons chosen were the comfort
and convenience of the car and the distance from home to work. There were also a
significant number of people who stressed the need of a car to carry out their job.
The survey forms the baseline data from which the plan will be measured. The
measures in the plan should reduce the number of staff travelling to work within its
three year lifespan, increasing the portion of staff walking to work (currently 11%) and
increasing the portion of staff cycling to work (currently 4%). The plan’s success in
achieving this aim will be measured through a repeat of the recent staff travel survey.
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ACTION PLAN
Action
Who
When
Cost
General Information
Improve travel information in reception of Perceval House.
This could include the installation of an electronic travel
information kiosk. Also, the council will publish transport links
in a newsletter.
Include green travel advice in the induction process for new
employees.
Offer a diagnostic check on individual travel options to all staff
Produce an information map for visitors informing them that
there is no on-site car parking for visitors, except disabled
badge holders, and provide information of how to get to the
site by public transport, good walking routes, cycling and
where the nearest public car parks are.
Produce a “Guide to Homeworking” – including health and
safety guidance, guidance on IT access, etc.
Walking Initiatives
Promote and extend walking schemes
Cycling Initiatives
Increase number of secure cycle facilities, along with showers
and changing facilities, lockers and drying areas.
Promote cycle training
Introduce Dr Bike scheme (twice a year)
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Property Services /
Green Travel Co-ordinator
Diversity & Talent
Undertake works
Year One
Year One
Green Travel Co-ordinator
Diversity & Talent
Year One
Year One
Property Services /
Diversity & Talent
Year One
£5000 one off
payment to
produce
information
facilities
Parks
Year One
tbc
Property Services /
Green Travel Co-ordinator
Cycling Officer
tbc
tbc
Year One
£3000 - £5000 per
1000 staff
Cycling Officer
Year One
tbc
Action
Who
When
Cost
Purchase additional pool cycles and monitor and evaluate their
use each year
Cycling Officer
£500 per bike
Promote the availability of cycle allowance and for purchase of
cycles and equipment.
Public Transport Initiatives
Diversity & Talent
Purchase by end of
Year One, to
evaluate use end of
Year Two
Year One
Promote existing discounted staff season ticket / travelcard
interest free loans
Cars / Other Vehicles Initiatives
Set up a car share initiative to match potential participants
(using post-code check), possibly linked to a West London
Liftshare scheme.
Seek to increase, in percentage terms, number of green /
alternatively fuelled vehicles (AFVs).
Introduce annual charge of £100 per annum for all permit
holders in the car parks to the rear of the Town Hall, Perceval
Hosue and at 22-24 Uxbridge Road from June 2004.
Introduce system of pool vehicles, potentially using City Car
Club systems, and monitor and evaluate their use.
Reduce parking levels through the sale of Dicken’s Yard
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Diversity & Talent
Green Travel Co-ordinator.
Year One
Set up by the end of
2003
Individual departments,
monitored by the Green
Travel Co-ordinator
Parking Services
Annual review
Lead role to be confirmed
Assess demand for
vehicles and
purchase by end of
Year One, Evaluate
use end of Year
Two.
Year Two and
Three
All Departments &
Parking Services
Year One
TfL
Raises
approximately
£30,000
Recommend 4 cars
initially. Costs
dependent on
whether vehicles are
leased or
purchased.
Action
Who
When
Cost
Green Travel Co-ordinator
At the end of
implementation.
tbc
Monitor & Evaluate
To assess changes in travel patterns brought about by the
implementation of the Green Travel Plan, there should be a
survey carried out at the beginning and at the end of the
process
Discuss with Bus and Train operators how their plans for the
future can encourage Green Travel Planning in Ealing.
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Transport Services
Year One
tbc