Rail Travel For Work: Which Companies Are Paving The Way For Sustainable Business Travel?

📆 9-11-2023 08:35:00
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Traveling by rail over a plane will reduce the employee’s carbon footprint by 93%. Yet, too few companies have embraced rail

Flying for work is all too common for some employees. But on some common routes like London-Amsterdam, traveling by rail over plane will reduce the employee’s carbon footprint by 93%. Yet, too few companies have embraced rail in their business travel policies, a new briefing by the Travel Smart Campaign finds.

Among the respondents, the Travel Smart campaign identified seven companies with ambitious rail policies. These areCompanies set a travel climate budget for the company and per department,Employees must use the train instead of plan for trips below a certain amount of hours or kilometers Companies grant additional leave to employees if they use rail or low-carbon transport for personal reasonsCompanies were also asked to submit data on kilometers traveled by air and rail in 2019 versus 2022. 14 companies submitted data, and in all cases, the companies had reduced the kilometers traveled by air. 6 of the 14 had increased rail travel as a consequence.

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