Welcome to Teletrips!

Teletrips helps create, implement and manage public-private partnership programs to reduce commuter congestion, improve air quality, and reduce energy consumption. Teletrips joins with municipalities, states, provinces, the federal and international governments to design and implement incentives to encourage a sustainable approach to commuter transportation. These incentives may be achieved through public funding or through pure market-based approaches such as emissions trading.

Teletrips Management Services includes support to employers in establishing trip reduction programs, development of incentives to help advance trip reduction efforts, and community analysis and planning tools. The basic software tools used within this service include proprietary web-based software, which tracks auto emission reductions resulting from telecommuting and other transportation control measures, and a sophisticated multi-stakeholder modeling tool for policy decisions.

By tracking NOx, VOC, CO and CO2 emission savings resulting from employers’ trip reduction efforts, Teletrips uses established protocols, to provide the employer with an asset, pollution credits (Mobile Emission Reduction Credits or MERCs), that can be traded or used for environmental compliance. The reports generated by Teletrips also help the company assess the energy savings attributed to their commute reduction program, audit the bottom-line impacts of the employer’s program and substantiate company actions that reduce business risk through dispersion of resources.

For the community, the benefits of companies adopting trip reduction and telework are clear. They include improvement in air quality, a reduction in vehicle congestion, fuel conservation, greenhouse gas emission reduction, and an improved quality of life for its citizens. In order to harness the potential of these programs, and to help the community in its planning process, Teletrips utilizes a web-based policy decision-making tool. The software completes the public-private goal of assessing community-wide environmental, transportation infrastructure and health impacts of employer’s commuter decisions.