Travel
Study and Hot Office Project
The
proposal is to carry out a feasibility study of travel activities in
Alyth in order to develop proposals for a partnership project between
Alyth community and a number of large employers (public and private)
that currently have a high level of commuting Alyth residents and to
create an outpost ‘hot office’
in the community where employees can ‘hot desk’ in
a local-based, cost shared office building equipped with modern ICT
equipment and support services. This approach has the multiple benefits
of lower carbon costs, lower real costs and time saving but, as a
preference to working from home, it also has the potential benefits of
increased awareness between public service providers (leading to a more
integrated delivery of services); an enjoyable social office
environment (as against being own your own at home); more economic
investment into smaller communities (use of local services at lunchtime
etc.); and lower overall heating costs.
To reach this
final objective
the first stage will require the collection of evidence of the current
travel
patters of Alyth residents and an identification of the main employers
and
commuter routes. Once this information is in place the main employers
will be
approached and will be invited to form a working group with the
community with
the task of reducing commuter traffic and, primarily, to consider
jointly
setting up a ‘hot office’ in Alyth. This first
stage will be the foundation for
a number of other sustainable transport projects all designed to reduce
carbon
emissions.
The
initial phase of this
project will have 3 outcomes;
- Establishing
an evidence base of Alyth residents travel patterns
- Informing
large employers that an opportunity exists to make travel pattern
changes. (It will be up to the employer organisations to engage in the
project and help implement any initiatives such as a "hot office")
- Providing
the foundation for planning and delivering other sustainable transport,
carbon reduction projects - e.g. local cycle schemes; lift
share schemes; rationalising public transport services and business
transport initiatives.
AEG
will manage and steer
the project and the wider community will participate in the travel
pattern
survey.
This
project has enormous
potential to have lasting social and economic benefits. The main one
being to
make Alyth a more desirable place to live by reducing traffic and
keeping
economic activity within the town.
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