Incentives Employers Can Provide to Promote Rideshare

1. Provide preferential parking for carpools.

2. Provide reduced parking fees for carpools.

3. Participate in Wichita Transit's discount bus pass program.

4. Provide flexible working hours to allow for the formation of carpools.

5. Provide advance notice of overtime so employees in carpools may make alternate commuting arrangements.

6. Provide time off work to attend rideshare organizational meetings.

7. Recognize and commend employees for carpooling or riding the bus.

8. Participate in the FTA's Commuter Choice Program, to allow employees a tax-free incentive to commute to work by means other than driving alone.

Ways an Employer can Promote Rideshare

1. Provide Rideshare information and applications in "new hire" employee orientation packets.

2. Conduct a commuter survey to determine employee travel patterns.

3. Utilize Wichita Transit's free computerized carpool matching service.

4. Advertise rideshare and its benefits in a company newsletter.

5. Appoint a Transportation Coordinator to assist employees with meeting their transportation needs.

6. Conduct raffles and give prizes for ridesharers.

7. Establish a transportation information board on which employees may advertise openings in their carpools or their desire to join one.

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