Best Workplaces for Commuters

The Rapid, located in Kent County, Michigan has met the Standard of Excellence and is designated a Best Workplace for Commuters.  To encourage alternative commuting to its employees, The Rapid provides free bus passes to all its employees and their immediate family members and encourages employee use of the transit system.  The Rapid offers the public carpool matching program and vanpooling program to its employees, along with its guaranteed ride home program.

The Rapid is the public transportation provider in Kent County, Michigan, primarily serving the cities of East Grand Rapids, Grand Rapids, Grandville, Kentwood, Walker and Wyoming.  It provides fixed route bus and paratransit demand response transportation to the region, as well as serving as a regional mobility manager.  The Rapid transported more than 9 million trips in 2009, more than doubling its ridership over the past ten years.  The Rapid serves as the local rideshare office for West Michigan, including Kent, Ottawa and Allegan Counties.  Its services include an online carpool matching service for the general public (www.wmrideshare.org) as well as customized matching sites for local employers, and a regional vanpool service, the RapidVan program.

TranBen, Ltd has met the Standard of Excellence and is designated a Best Workplace for Commuters.  TranBen, Ltd. is a national brand company with employees who are committed to the company’s core values including: doing more with less.  TranBen, Ltd. provides national coverage via employees who telework, enjoy flextime and the opportunity to be creative and passionate about their work.

TranBen, Ltd works throughout the United States in providing tax-free transportation benefit consulting and administrative services to public, private and not-for-profit businesses for their employees who utilize public transportation, vanpool or bicycle to and/or from work.  TranBen, Ltd  is the premier provider of administative fee-free pre-tax transportaion benefit solutions to employers who want to self-administer their commuter benefit programs.

For more information about this Best Workplace for Commuter’s designated employer visit  WWW.TRANBEN.COM.

Zimride is designated a Best Workplace for Commuters.  As a leading innovator in the rideshare industry, they offer flexible telework programs as well as bike and carpool benefits for employees.  

Zimride’s industry leading rideshare service helps universities and corporations establish easy to use, private, social networks for ridesharing. The result: a critical mass of users sharing rides, saving money and reducing resource consumption.

Visit www.zimride.com for more information.