Welcome to the Green Travel website
"Developing healthier, cheaper and greener transport for Swinburne staff and students"
Swinburne's Green Travel Plan is the result of a collaboration between TravelSmart and Swinburne University of Technology (SUT) which began in February 2006. It will be the main driving force for improvements to Swinburne's sustainable travel profile.
TravelSmart Workplaces is the Victorian State Government's voluntary travel behaviour change program helping employers to reduce the financial and environmental impacts of their organisation's travel choices, both in staff commuting and in travel for work during business hours.
Swinburne University of Technology's participation in Travel Smart is an initiative of the Sustainability Covenant with EPA Victoria.
Click on your campus in the menu on the left for your Green Travel Plan
Green Travel Plan 07-09
Aims and Objectives
Swinburne's Green Travel Plan aims to create healthier, cheaper and environmentally preferable outcomes for travel related activities of Swinburne staff and students. Objectives for 2007 are as follows:
Culture
- To enhance staff and student awareness of travel related sustainable travel options
Infrastructure
- To increase accessibility to showers, lockers and bike storage facilities across all University sites
- To reduce greenhouse gas and other emissions from Swinburne's vehicle fleet
Behaviour
- To encourage a modal shift from single occupancy car use to and from work and for business travel
- To increase the proportion of trips to, from and between each campus made by public transport, car share, foot, and bike
- To develop a car pooling network for staff
- To increase the participation in Green Travel initiatives such as Commuter Club, City Cycling with Confidence, WalkSmart, CycleSmart, Greenfleet and Ride to Work Days
Policy and procedure
- To develop a framework that rewards staff for sustainable travel behaviour, such as: travel reimbursement for bikes used for Swinburne business
- salary packaging for public transport, cycling and environmentally preferable vehicles (e.g. hybrids, motorbikes, etc)
- priority car parking for car poolers
- supporting carbon offsets for business travel and events
- To ensure Swinburne's policies and procedures encourage sustainable travel practices
