Summary 
      A company travel plan (CTP) is "a strategy for an organisation to 
        reduce its transportation impacts and to influence the travel behaviour 
        of its employees, suppliers, visitors and customers" (Rye, 2002). 
        Very often, the travel plan focuses on employee travel behaviour. 
      CTPs are also referred to as Employer Transport Plans and have in the 
        past been known as Green Commuter Plans or Green Transport Plans. The 
        term CTP is UK parlance. Elsewhere in Europe CTPs are referred to as site 
        based mobility management. The phrase mobility management alone refers 
        to more than a CTP; it is an umbrella term encompassing all attitudinal 
        and behavioural measures which can include information provision. In the 
        US CTPs are known as transportation demand management (TDM). As with mobility 
        management, TDM can be an umbrella term for more than just a CTP. 
      CTPs consist of a package of measures, which are implemented to reduce 
        solo car driving. A ride sharing scheme is a common measure. CTPs should 
        have a number of common elements. These elements are a co-ordinator within 
        the company (ideally full time), communication with staff, a staff travel 
        survey (to identify travel patterns and potentially useful measures) and 
        monitoring. Many organisations include incentives to take up alternatives 
        and some also initiate disincentives. The stages involved in changing 
        travel patterns through a CTP are the same generic stages of behaviour 
        change discussed under individualised marketing campaigns to reduce car 
        use. 
      Organisations introduce CTPs of their own volition to tackle parking 
        shortages, improve accessibility, solve staff recruitment and retention 
        problems, comply with planning regulations or in the case of some public 
        sector organisations, comply with government directives. Organisations 
        can also save money in the long term. This could be achieved by replacing 
        company cars with pool vehicles for example, or reducing the kilometres 
        travelled for business mileage through telecommunications. 
      Demand impacts are usually in terms of reductions in car use and increase 
        in other modes (depending on availabilty). The impacts are normally incremental 
        over time, and can generate increases in supply of alternatives to the 
        car.  
        
       
       
        
  
      
        
        
       
       
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