Background

Teletrips Management Services strives to balance public policy and private sector goals surrounding one of our community’s greatest challenges: ever-increasing traffic congestion and resultant deterioration of air quality. Teletrips Management Services offers a program that not only, reduces commuter traffic and congestion, improves air quality, reduces energy consumption and thus CO2 emissions, but also creates added value for participating companies and the general public.

Teletrips Management Services will assist communities that want to establish programs that promote increased use of telework by creating financial incentives for businesses that allow appropriate employees to work from home at least one day a week. By calculating the reduced kilometres/miles traveled by the employees of a business through the Teletrips software, the business will earn emission credits that can be traded into existing stationery markets, or into open market systems.

How The Program Works

Teletrips will partner with local, state, provincial and federal governments that are seeking innovative solutions for traffic congestion, air pollution and climate change mitigation through voluntary, incentive-based trip reduction programs.

While numerous governments recognize the potential conservation, transportation and environmental benefits of having employees work from home 1-2 days a week, in many cases, the private sector has been slow to implement telework programs. However, improvements in communications technology, improved cost-benefit analysis of telework programs, increased traffic commute times, (resulting in lost worker productivity) and increased worker information and property liability concerns after September 11, have together created a new environment for adoption of telework programs.

In this new business environment, Teletrips believes that there is a perfect opportunity to dramatically increase acceptance of telework by offering business incentives. Teletrips has assembled a strategic alliance with key private sector partners to offer these incentives. By using the Teletrips tracking tool, in coordination with government sanctioned programs, businesses will not only earn tradable credits, they will have the added benefits of reduced liability insurance rates, reductions in auto insurance rates for workers, and discounts for office and computer products.

Support Of Public Policy Goals

The Teletrips Trip Reduction program was designed to help accomplish public policy goals relating to traffic congestion, pollution, climate change, and fuel conservation by responding to and offering solutions to the private sector’s financial concerns. The program, which Teletrips is prepared to coordinate in cooperation with local, state, provincial and federal governments, is based upon the philosophy that progress can be made on these issues by the private sector, on a voluntary basis.

At Teletrips, we direct programs creating private-public partnerships that provide solutions to community problems through voluntary, private sector action.

For more information on what Teletrips can do for your community or your business, contact Rob Cutler at 403 538 4712 or click here to send an email.