Making Car Sharing and Car Clubs Work - Case ... - The Civil Service
Making Car Sharing and Car Clubs Work - Case ... - The Civil Service
Making Car Sharing and Car Clubs Work - Case ... - The Civil Service
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MAKING CAR SHARING AND CAR CLUBS WORKCASE STUDY SUMMARIES5.13 <strong>The</strong> team also publishes information about the environmental impact of Airport <strong>Car</strong>share.<strong>The</strong>ir table of ‘environmental information’ for the period April 2001 – June 2004 is:Heathrow Stansted GatwickScottishairports S’o’ton TotalKm reduction 19,532,544 8,266,135 4,107,266 1,596,711 12,513 33,515,169CO2 reduction (kg) 3,792,681 2,262,485 711,495 219,831 3468 6,989,960Fuel reduction (l) 1,573,935 707,009 301,124 88,245 3,060 2,673,373Reg. members 4045 1383 841 411 93 6773<strong>Sharing</strong> members 2290 1061 770 212 48 4381Active pools 1047 480 280 94 20 1921No. of towns 446 110 43 86 26 625No. of companies 246 92 23 64 9 370Bishop'sLondon Stortford Horsham Aberdeen SouthamptonTop 5 towns for<strong>Car</strong>shareregistrationsSlough Braintree Brighton Dunfermline EastleighHounslow Dunmow Crawley Paisley FarehamHayes Harlow Billingshurst Edinburgh WinchesterStaines Colchester Worthing Livingston Waterlooville5.14 <strong>The</strong> above figures are based on an average car share group, sharing 3 days per week, <strong>and</strong>have been rounded up/down.Successes / Failures5.15 <strong>The</strong> main difficulty has been associated with persuading other employers on the vastHeathrow site to get involved. BAA Heathrow employs less than 6% (about 4,000 staff) outof the 70,000 who work at the airport. BAA Heathrow is not the employer of the remaining94%, <strong>and</strong> their employers (about 400 firms) are BAA Heathrow’s customers, <strong>and</strong> might wellexpect to have car parking facilities provided.5.16 Heathrow Express has not assisted with tackling SOV modal share amongst people whocommute to work at Heathrow, as most of its passengers are airport customers who aretransferring from other modes, <strong>and</strong> in any case only 2% from private cars.5.17 A further difficulty is presented by history. <strong>The</strong> car parking system has developed over manyyears. Today, BAA Heathrow charges companies with staff who work at the airport anythingfrom £465 to over £1,000 p.a. for a car parking space, with the rate depending on theconvenience of the location. Very few companies charge this cost out to their staff. A furtherissue is the fact that parking is paid for quarterly in arrears. Consequently there is noincentive, in terms of reduce parking costs, for those employees who might consider carsharing occasionally <strong>and</strong> drive alone the rest of the time as they will still need their ownparking permit. However, BAA Heathrow is considering introducing a system which will allowcharging on a ‘pay-as-you-go’ basis.Supporting Measures / Alternative Approaches Considered5.18 Incentives are offered to people joining Airport <strong>Car</strong>share, including:Discount with the Institute of Advanced MotoristsFinal V1.1, Dec. 2004 - 32 -