The Kent Smarter Travel Challenge 2015 is open to all businesses in Kent and will is running from 1 June for four weeks. The Kent Smarter Travel Challenge gives businesses is to get as many people as possible to adopt more sustainable modes of travel for commuting and business travel. The idea is to encourage businesses to travel more sustainably for work reasons by switching to modes like walking, cycling, using public transport and electric vehicles and car-sharing.

To get involved Businesses can sign up, and will be able to enter miles saved by not travelling to meetings or going into the office every day. The aim is to encourage businesses to work smarter to help reduce congestion on Kent’s roads and cut down on CO2 emissions. For example, you could use video or tele-conferencing facilities and home working. Any business or organisation can take part, with separate categories for different sized businesses.

There are weekly prizes for individuals are also up for grabs. Businesses can compete with each other to win their category by logging the most sustainable miles and saving the most CO2. Winners of each category will receive a trophy and be invited to attend the Kent Healthy Business Awards ceremony on 23 July in Maidstone. There will also be an overall larger prize for the business achieving the greatest percentage of modeshift during the challenge.

Why should you get involved?

• The aim of the Challenge is to share the benefits of traveling to and for work more sustainably.
• You’ll save time and money, reduce congestion and pollution, boost your health and energy, and burn calories.
• Sustainable travel to and for work includes walking, cycling, using public transport, car-sharing or even saving a journey to work by working from home or using a video conference instead of traveling to a meeting!
• The Challenge is open to anyone working in Kent.
• You can log your journeys individually or as part of your workplace team.
• It’s great fun and we’ll be giving out prizes every week!

• For more about the the Kent Smarter Travel Challenge 2015 and how to sign up go to: kenttravel.getmeactive.org.uk
• for other ways to be ‘greener’ go to our Care for the Planet page
• for other ways to get moving go to our Be Active page