Best Workplaces for Commuters

The State Personnel Administration in Atlanta, Georgia has met the Standard of Excellence and is named a Best Workplace for Commuters.  A telework program eliminates an estimated 8 percent of employee commute trips and a compressed work week program eliminates approximately 10 percent of employee commute trips.  Supporting benefits include an active membership in a TMA, rideshare matching, pretax transit and vanpool subsidies, secure bicycle parking, employee commuting awards programs, and healthy initiatives.  An emergency ride home program is offered by the Clean Air Campaign.

The State Personnel Administration (SPA), formerly the Georgia Merit System, was established in February, 1943 (SB 17), as the central personnel agency of the state of Georgia, providing human resource (HR) and benefit programs, products and services to all state entities and employees.  Visit Georgia Merit System.

Mercy General Hospital has met the Standard of Excellence and is designated a Best Workplace for Commuters.  Mercy General Hospital offers a wide variety of commuter benefits to their employees.  They offer transit and vanpool benefits and offer an incentive to those who choose to give up a parking spot.  An emergency ride home is offered through the Sacramento Transit Management Association. 

Mercy General Hospital has been caring for patients in the downtown Sacramento region for more than a century. Founded by the Sisters of Mercy in the 1800s, Mercy’s mission and values reflect the Sisters’ heritage of caring to this day. They are proud to continue to deliver compassionate, quality healthcare, including community education, health screenings and nationally-recognized treatment programs.  For more information, visit www.mercygeneral.org.

The U.S. Department of State has met the Standard of Excellence and is designated a Best Workplace for Commuters.  The U.S. Department of State is located in the Harry S. Truman Building.  Providing leadership by offering high level commuter benefits, employees can take advantage of transit and vanpool benefits and telework and compressed work week options.  Commuter Connections provides an Emergency Ride Home program. 

Supporting benefits include carpool matching, shuttles from transit stations, preferred parking costs for carpools and vanpools, secure bicycle parking, showers, and lockers, lunchtime shuttle, bikesharing and other healthy initiatives.

The mission of the U.S. Department of State is to create a more secure, democratic, and prosperous world for the benefit of the American people and the international community.   On January 21, 2009, Hillary Rodham Clinton was appointed Secretary of State by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate, and is the President’s chief foreign affairs adviser. The Secretary carries out the President’s foreign policies through the State Department and the Foreign Service of the United States.  Visit www.state.gov. for complete information.

PACCAR Inc. has met the Standard of Excellence and is designated a Best Workplace for Commuters.  PACCAR, located in Bellevue, Washington offers employees a transit and vanpool benefit.  They also offer carpool matching, preferred parking for carpools and vanpools, secure bicycle parking, showers, and lockers and an employee commuting awards program. 

PACCAR is a global technology leader in the design, manufacture and customer support of premium light-, medium- and heavy-duty trucks under the Kenworth, Peterbilt and DAF nameplates. The company also provides customized financial services, information technology and truck parts related to its principal business.

To learn about PACCAR visit http://www.paccar.com.

Discovery Communications LLC, a media company,  has met the Standard of Excellence and is named a Best Workplace for Commuters.

The City of Mesa, Arizona has met the Standard of Excellence and is designated a Best Workplaces for Commuters for eight worksites in the Mesa metropolitan area.  The City of Mesa offers a transit subsidy, ridesharing and carpool matching, secure biycle parking, showers and lockers, and employee commuting awards program, compressed work schedules, incentive and other on-site amenities. 

Visit the City of Mesa at http://www.mesaaz.gov/transportation/

UNC Chapel Hill Department of Safety has met the Standard of Excellence and  is designated a Best Workplace for Commuters.  The Commuter Alternatives Program is a regionally and nationally-recognized program designed to encourage and reward UNC students, faculty, and staff who do NOT drive alone to campus.    Alternative transportation supports UNC Sustainability Goals that also include reducing traffic congestion and the number of vehicles parked on campus.    UNC is a leader contributing $5.9 million per year to insure fare free public municipal transit and a free annual pass for regional transit.  UNC also offers vanpools, carsharing and actively promotes and participates in healthyinitiatives to encourage and increase employee walking and bicycling. 

Visit UNC Chapel Hill Transportaiton at http://www.dps.unc.edu/Transit/gettingtowork/CAP/cap.cfm.

Date:  Nov 19, 2009

Time:  4:00 PM to 5:15 (EST) | 3:00 to 4:15 PM (CST) | 2:00 to 3:15 PM (MST) | 1:00 to 2:15 PM (PST).  

Duration:  1:15

This first BWC Spotlight web conference features Google‘s transportation program for its employees.

OVERVIEW
Google’s Transportation program was established in 2004 and includes numerous programs and incentives designed to encourage alternative commute transportation modes. Google’s key program elements include free commute shuttles, community bicycles, self powered commuting incentives, vanpools, carpools and carsharing.  Join us to hear about their innovative programs.

• Google’s Shuttle (GBus) carries over 1,500 unique riders per day and saves approximately 3.9 million pounds of carbon dioxide per year.
• Google has its own carsharing program.
• Self Powered Commuters travel to and from work on bikes, rollerblades and on foot.
• Carpooling and vanpooling is encouraged.
• Community Bikes are available to all employees to travel around campus.
• Showers and bicycle storage facilities (lockers, racks and indoor storage) are located on campus.
• Visitor bikes are loaned to provide for short-term use.
• GRide offers scheduled service for movement around the Mountain View campus.
• Guaranteed Ride Home is available for emergencies.
• Tax savings through employee benefit plans.
• The Hub is designed as a fun and functional space while waiting for GBus.
• And more. . . .

Speakers:

Kevin Mathy, Transportation Manager, Google, Inc.
Kevin Mathy has been in transportation for nearly 30 years, developing, implementing and managing transportation programs. Since June of 2007 he has held the position of Transportation Manager for Google Inc. In addition to being responsible for Google’s Mountain View programs, Kevin is also responsible for managing Google’s Global alternative transportation programs.

Brendon Harrington, Transportation Programs Manager, Google, Inc.
Brendon Harrington is the Transportation Programs Manager for Google, providing day to day management of numerous transportation programs designed to encourage alternative commute transportation modes, including Google’s extensive shuttle and bicycle operations.  

Moderated by Julie Bond, Program Manager, Best Workplaces for Commuters

Non BWC Member REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Please click the link below.  Register by November 15 to receive your personalized connection information via email:

http://tinyurl.com/bwcspotlightguest

If you are a current 2009  BWC member, a link was sent to you to register for your free web conference provided as a member benefit.  If you have questions, please contact Julie Bond, bond@cutr.usf.edu.

(Please note the online registration will be down on November 11 for maintenance.)