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Commuter Options

The Complete Guide for Canadian Employers

Transport Canada is pleased to offer Canadian employers a practical and comprehensive guide to improving commuter options for their employees. Based on years of international experience but with a focus on Canadian examples and resources, this guide covers the full range of ways that commuting can be made easier, healthier and less expensive by improving the alternatives to driving alone.

The guide presents practical, proven approaches to increasing the use of active transportation (e.g. walking and cycling), public transit, ridesharing (e.g. carpooling and vanpooling), teleworking and other alternatives to driving alone to work.  It also addresses important aspects of creating a commuter options program, right from the earliest planning stages through to program development, implementation and monitoring.  The guide is full of references to additional key resources, and provides dozens of facts, figures and images representing the many commuter options success stories at workplaces across Canada.

The guide is accompanied by materials that can be used by business groups, government agencies or non-profit organizations to deliver a one-day training workshop to representatives of interested employers.   

The Commuter Options guide and workshop are designed for use by small, medium or large employers anywhere in Canada, in both the public and private sectors. Property developers and managers who want to build and operate more attractive and efficient facilities can also benefit from them.

Many Canadian agencies that offer related support services to employers are identified in Chapter 2 of the guide. The important local information and resources they can provide, complement the Commuter Options guide and workshop. Transport Canada encourages interested employers to investigate the services available in their region.

To order a printed copy of the guide, please contact us at: env@tc.gc.ca

Date Modified:
2011-09-23