Connecting your employees to transportation choices is just one way to green your business. Any business that implements sustainable (or “green”) business practices throughout the organization to reduce its impact on the environment is greening its business. A green business commits to actions that:

• Reduce waste
• Conserve natural resources
• Enhance quality of life for employees, customers and neighbors
• Reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Green policies are no longer simply functions of good corporate citizenship, they are inherently important business practices: Implementing a trip reduction program through RIDE Solutions not only helps you reduce expenses and provide employee benefits, it reduces your carbon footprint and improves regional air quality. RIDE Solutions can provide partners with measurable, marketable results of your efforts to help you meet your business goals.

Whether your focus is on making a difference for the environment or improving your bottom line, there are plenty of reasons to go green. Here are just a few:

• Cost savings in energy consumed, supplies purchased, time spent
• Improved employee wellness
• Reduce your carbon footprint
• Attract customers and clients who prefer to patronize businesses

Promoting cleaner commute modes to your employees has a number of benefits. Reducing trips made to your worksite allows you to reduce employee parking, freeing up spaces for your customers or providing that real estate for other uses. Commuter Choice benefits can be a no- or low-cost addition to your benefits package, proving employees a transportation they can use anytime, not just for the work commute, and savings them thousands of dollars a year. An active telework program not only provides the cleanest work commute of all - none! - but can be integrated into a disaster recovery plan that allows your business to keep going even if your main worksite is shut down. And these are only a few - becoming a RIDE Solutions Workplace gives you access to experts who can determine the best program for your needs and resources.

• Adequate employee parking
• Competitive benefits
• Helping your employees save money
• Employee quality of life
• Absenteeism
• Disaster preparedness
• Good corporate citizenship
• Community outreach
• Your carbon footprint
• Regional air quality and health

By becoming a RIDE Solutions Workplace, we can help you implement an alternative transportation program that can address all these issues and more. RIDE Solutions' objective is to improve air quality by providing services and incentives that encourage commuters to adopt cleaner commute modes. RIDE Solutions is a selectable, scalable program that has been customized for each of the many companies that have signed on.

We recognize that our industry partners are resource constrained so we provide direct assistance in customized surveys, density analyses, trip diaries, and impact assessments that have value beyond RIDE Solutions, such as determining size and cost of parking requirements, a perpetual concern. We provide the promotional materials and events: on-site visits, direct mail campaigns, registration drives, promotional events, articles for company periodicals and newsletters, and a website tailored for each employer. RIDE Solutions also provides the incentives for employees to enroll in the program: Guaranteed Ride Home, parking benefits, signage, and awards and prizes. Finally, we provide the community recognition of both the employer and the employees through established liaison with news media, radio, television, and internet.