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Archive for December 2009

City of Asheville (Asheville, North Carolina)

The City of Asheville has met the Standard of Excellence and is named a Best Workplaces for Commuters.  The City of Asheville provides a transit pass benefit and a significant compressed work week program for employees.  They provide rideshare matching, preferred parking for carpools, emergency ride home, secure bicycle parking and amenities, and a bikesharing program.  The City of Asheville also

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Fairfax County Government (Fairfax, VA)

Fairfax County Government has met the Standard of Excellence and is named a Best Workplace for Commuters.  Fairfax County offers a transit pass benefit, a significant telework program and compressed work week to employees.  They are active in a Transportation Management Association, local ozone awareness program, offer rideshare matching and preferred carpool parking, secure bicycle parking and actively promote healthy

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We Energies (Milwaukee, WI)

We Energies has met the Standard of Excellence and is named a Best Workplaces for Commuters.  We Energies offers a transit pass benefit for employees and an emergency ride home program. They maintain an active membership in a TMA and local ozone awareness program along with carpool matching, pretax subsidies, preferred carpool parking, bicycle parking, compressed work week schedules and

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Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company (Sunnyvale & Palo Alto, CA)

Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company has met the Standard of Excellence and is named one of the Best Workplaces for Commuters for worksites in Sunnyvale and Palo Alto. Space Systems Company has had a robust Commute Alternatives Program in place at its Sunnyvale and Palo Alto campuses for over thirty years and continues to enhance the program to assist its

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Pfizer, Inc. – GreenWheels

Pfizer, Inc.  – GreenWheels has met the Standard of Excellence and is designated a Best Workplaces for Commuters.  GreenWheels, the commuter assistance program, is dedicated to Pfizer’s sustainability mission to improve the environment. The following Pfizer, Inc. locations are listed:  Collegeville and Great Valley, PA; Madison and Princeton, NJ, Pearl River, NY; Research Triangle Park and Sanford, NC; Richmond, VA, Cambridge and Andover, MA.

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Research Triangle Foundation of NC (North Carolina)

The Research Triangle Foundation of NC has met the Standard of Excellence and is designated a Best Workplace for Commuters.  One of the oldest and largest science parks in North America, The Research Triangle Park (RTP) is a 7,000 acre development that is home to more than 170 companies employing over 42,000 full-time knowledge workers and an estimated 10,000 contract

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University of California, Davis (Davis, CA)

The University of California, Davis (UC Davis) has met the Standard of Excellence and is designated a Best Workplaces for Commuters.  UC Davis offers a significant telework program along with other high level benefits.  At UC Davis, goClub is the Alternative Transportation program.  With goClub, members receive benefits from goCarpool, goTrain, goBike, goBus, goVanpool and goWalk.  Carsharing, rideshare matching, bicycle parking,

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Northern Westchester Hospital (Mount Kisco, NY)

Northern Westchester Hospital (NWH) has met the Standard of Excellence and is designated a Best Workplace for Commuters.  Northern Westchester Hospital is a 233-bed facility serving northern Westchester, Putnam and southern Dutchess Counties in New York and parts of Fairfield, Connecticut since 1916, and has long been recognized as on of the region’s premier health care providers.  NWH has developed and

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Bishop Ranch Transportation Association (San Ramon, CA)

Bishop Ranch has met the Standard of Excellence and is designated a Best Workplace for Commuters.  The Association represents 33,000 employees and is a charter member of the Commuter Choice Program.  High level benefits include transit pass subsidies, a significant telework program, and compressed work week.  An emergency ride home program is provided through 511 Contra Costa.  Bishop Ranch is

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Regional Transportation Commission (Reno, NV)

The Regional Transportation Commission located in Reno has met the Standard of Excellence and is designated a Best Workplace for Commuters.  Offering not only a transit and vanpool pass subsidy to employees, they provide a bus pass and vanpool subsidy program to the community and will match an employer’s subsidy of their employee passes up to 20 percent.  They provide an

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