Business Parks and Industrial Estates

Demand-responsive transport (DRT) for business parks and industrial estates offers a flexible and efficient solution to address transportation challenges. Unlike traditional fixed-route services, DRT adjusts its routes and schedules based on real-time demand from users. This service can help reduce traffic congestion, improve accessibility, and lower transportation costs. Businesses and employees benefit from on-demand services tailored to specific needs, ensuring timely and convenient commutes. Such schemes also benefit from the comfort and ease of having a pre-booked seat on the bus and being able to view real-time location, key elements that help generate confidence.

DRT opens up options for workers to make a modal shift in their commuting habits.  A bespoke transport service can offer a solution for many home to work mobility challenges.

Corporate DRT schemes also reduce environmental impact by promoting shared vehicle usage and lowering emissions, complying with the imposed corporate transport frameworks currently being established across many EU states. Such schemes also optimise resources as the corporate mobility cost can be shared with other companies as payment is by seat not by vehicle.

Integration with other transportation modes, like express buses or trains, further enhances mobility. By offering last-mile connectivity, DRT improves access to those on-site work locations with limited public transport options.  A reduced door-to-door journey time is key as commuters value a shorter commute that mirrors the journey of a private car.

Such schemes can increase employee satisfaction by providing reliable and customized transport solutions. This is of particular relevance for variable arrival and departure times: DRT can offer a punctual service adapted to specific work shifts with sufficient critical mass to add passengers on the same expedition. Alternatively the scheme could take the form of an internal shuttle service between corporate campuses, work sites or office locations, adapted to employees’ specific work shifts.

Additionally, businesses can retain talent by offering enhanced transportation options, and at the same time improve access to talent pool by being an attractive employer for those without access to a private vehicle or driving license.

And finally, we always need to be mindful of the bottom line, DRT schemes help optimise resources in the sense that the corporate mobility cost is shared with other companies, payment is by seat not by vehicle.  And think about the knock-on effect of swapping parking spaces for green space that can really turn around the attractiveness of the workplace environment!