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Sustainability Partnership
Travel Plan
One of the four Sustainability Partnership objectives is to reduce carbon emissions arising
from travel incurred by South Ayrshire Council's staff, and to encourage more sustainable
forms of travel. This ties in with the commitment to South
Ayrshire’s Climate Change Declaration (which contained several action
points, including the requirement to develop a Climate Change Action Plan), and
the
Local Transport Strategy. South Ayrshire
Council's Travel Plan was developed using the results from a staff travel
survey, and utilising free consultancy offered by JMP Consulting. The Plan outlines
actions, recommendations and targets to encourage reduction in car travel from four
main areas of Council operations:
- Staff commute - 70% of staff travel by car, alone
- Business travel - 2.7 million business miles were claimed in 05/06
- Fleet - use of Council fleet vehicles in 2005/06 resulted in the emission of an
estimated 4024 tonnes of CO2
- Procurement and service delivery
Low and no-cost awareness raising measures are underway, such as:
- Encouraging cycling by arranging bike clinics; installing cycling racks and lockers;
augmenting and capitalising on the forthcoming Cycle to Work scheme; creating a
Bicycle User Group to gather comments and suggestions to improve cyclists, facilities.
- Encourage more walking by focussing on health benefits
- Making walking and cycling information more available