18 Nov 2008

MATISSE Smarter Commuting
Following the success of this year's Smart Commute Week, welcome to the NEW Smart Commuting section of the MATiSSE Smarter Working website. Look out too for some changes and additions to this part of the website over the coming weeks and months.
Meantime we also offer a reprise on Smart Commute Week 2008 and links to a variety of useful resources ranging from the LIVE webcast highlights to tips and hints related to smarter (more sustainable) travel choices.
MATiSSE SMART COMMUTE WEEK 2008 (3rd to 7th November)
 
This year's MATiSSE Smart Commute Week featured:
  1. A LIVE half-hour daily on-line webcast (highlights can be viewed by clicking on the links) (courtesy of Ozone Conferencing)
  2. Daily Themes - included car share, reducing business travel, home-based working, flexible working including use of conferencing, smarter alternative commuting choices including tax efficient travel
  3. A Radio Promotion campaign in the form of a peak-time radio awareness campaign on Ocean FM you can listen live too and watch the video of DJ Rick Jackson cycling to work.!
  4. View  the Smart Commute Week highlights video on-line (courtesy of Signalize) find out how a ferry, a chicken, a bus, a greenhouse and a folding bike all contributed to the 2008 Smart Commute Week 
  5. FREE Downloads - Download a number of useful smarter-commuting and smarter working FREE resources to help make your own in-house Smart Commute Week initiative go smoothly.
  6. Who Did What? - Almost 200 organisations signed up to the Smart Commute Week Challenge. Read the Press Releases and our Snapshot of who was doing what.. 

The 2008 MATiSSE Smart Commute Week One in Five Challenge…

One in Five was the theme chosen for the 2008 Smart Commute Week. It only requires one in five of each employer’s workforce to work from home or work flexible hours at least once per week (e.g. one day in five), or for your business to reduce business travel mileage by 20% (e.g. one meeting in five) or commute by alternative means (car share, cycle, bus, park &ride, or train), once a week, to achieve the MATiSSE Smarter Working Initiative 'one in five' aim of reducing peak-time traffic volumes by, you’ve guessed it, 20%.