Business Solutions

Getting your people into work on time can be a nightmare with congestion and regular collisions causing delays during the rush hour.

We all know that:

• Many people travel the same way, at roughly the same time each day
• Travelling alone is a waste of resources, money, time and valuable road space
• Congestion adds to the liklihood of collisions
• Many organisations have extreme problems fitting everyone into the car park
• We should be making more effort to reduce our CO₂ emissions

But how?

One way is to help commuters to share car journeys.

CamShare has been providing businesses with a car share solution since 2002. Many organistions are already part of CamShare; click here to see who’s already on board.

There are two ways that you can help your staff take advantage of the CamShare car matching service:

1. Private Car Share Group – where your organisation joins CamShare to establish a ‘secure’ car sharing environment. Click here for more details of private groups
2. Open CamShare Alternatively you can promote www.camshare.co.uk to your staff who can join for free using either their home or work email address. They will then be a part of the ‘open’ CamShare system which links to the liftshare.com database on the internet. Click here to go to the open CamShare site – this is the link to send to your staff.

Private Car Share Groups

Setting up a private car share group on CamShare provides your staff with additional security. When they decide to make contact with a prospective car sharer this is undertaken (at least initially) via work email contact details.

You, the employer, determine the ‘boundary’ to your private group. For example larger organisations may find limiting searching to company colleagues is sufficient.

However, a greater pool of car sharers can be provided by linking your private groups to other such groups in your geographical area. Why? Well, perfect car share matches for your staff may be working at the company across the road! - CamShare allows your staff to find those matches.

Other advantages of setting up a private car share group include:

Marketing car sharing

• Joining a private car share group will also link you into the regular CamShare promotions that encourage the take-up of car sharing. These promotions are run by the Travel for Work Partnership and the County Council.
• In addition you will have the advice and support of your allocated liftshare Project Officer who will be able to advise you on internal marketing of the scheme.

Monitoring usage

• In addition a private car share group gives you access to CamShare’s excellent monitoring and communication tools. This is useful to keep track on how well things are going. And it is very important for organisations who are using car sharing as part of a wider travel for work plan -contact Travel for Work to find out more about these plans.

Support

• Each private scheme is 100% automated and needs no intervention from you to facilitate matches. Private groups will be assigned a Project Officer by liftshare giving you dedicated access and support.

Costings

Please contact liftshare (the provider of CamShare) to discuss the best options for your organisation.

Each organisation is charged a one-off set-up fee and yearly license fees.

Year One Set Up Fee
The set up fee equates to the following

100 or less employees	£200
101 to 250 employees	£200
251 to 500 employees	£300
501 to 750 employees	£400
Over 750 employees	£500

Year One License Fee equates to £2 per each employee.

Year Two License Fee equates to 22% of the first year license fee (or £200 whichever is the greater amount).

The table below gives examples of different size organisations for years one and two:

Employee numbers	Set up cost	Yr One license	Yr Two license	Total (set up and two years' license fees)
Less than 100	£200	£200	£200	£600
100	£200	£200	£200	£600
250	£300	£500	£200	£1000
400	£300	£800	£200	£1,300
600	£400	£1200	£264	£1864
1000	£500	£2000	£440	£2940
2000	£500	£4000	£880	£5330

All prices are excluding VAT.

Year Three and beyond
Prices will be reviewed from year three onwards – it is envisaged that they will rise by no more than 5%.

Included within this is the facility for all organisations to add BikeBUDi free of charge.

Option to add Walk and TaxiBUDi

• Less than 500 emps - just £250/item/yr (no set up fee)
• Over 500 emps - just £500/item/yr (no set up fee)
• Over 2,500 emps - just £750/item/yr (no set up fee)

There are many other services available eg:

• Paper based systems
• Call centre
• On site marketing/training
• Additional technical development
• Inception meeting and review meeting
• Additional comprehensive project and in-depth statistics analysis report

Please contact Liftshare (the provider of CamShare) to discuss the best options for your organisation

Next Steps

Organisations wishing to join CamShare should contact Liftshare to discuss the arrangements – see contact page.

For questions or advice on all aspects of car sharing for the daily commute please contact Travel for Work.