Businesses and organisations
Why set up a company car share scheme?
Whether you work for a company, charity or other type of organisation, whether your office is big or small, whether you're based in an urban area or in the countryside, car-sharing can help you in a number of ways.
Getting large (or small) numbers of people to the office can be costly in terms of money and time. Where public transport is limited many staff may choose to drive to work, thereby increasing congestion and pollution, and putting pressure on local parking facilities.
These problems can be addressed through the introduction of a car sharing scheme. Corporate car-sharing schemes here at kentcarshare will: 
- Reduce CO2 emissions and pollution
- Provide a cheap way for staff /or visitors to get to and from the office
- Reduce levels of traffic and congestion
- Reduce pressure on car-parking facilities
- Improve relations with the local community
- Widen the recruitment catchment area for staff
- Improve your corporate image
- Form a key part of your Travel Plan
If many of your staff use a car to commute to work - perhaps because they travel from a wide area, or public transport links are poor - a car share scheme may be ideal for your company.
To find out more please contact us.
A car share scheme can be a very important part of a company's drive to reduce costs and help employees get to work through a Travel Plan.
- Private groups can be easily monitored, allowing the administrator to monitor the success of the scheme.
- Access to private groups can be restricted by e-mail address, IP address, password or through the use of an intranet.
- Members of the group can choose whether to search for car share companions from the group alone, or from the national database as well.
- Private groups can be associated with other private groups, allowing clusters of communities to integrate.
- Private groups can be easily monitored, allowing the administrator to monitor the success of the scheme.
Other initiative such as Walk, Bike and Taxi Buddy are also available
To find out more please contact us.
How to set up and promote a company car share scheme
Contact us, and we will help you to plan and start your car sharing scheme. We will also help you to promote your scheme to your employees by providing you with promotional material. Further guidance and advice will be available from liftshare Client Support Team. The following Kentcarshare branded marketing materials may also be available;
- leaflets and posters
- pop-up banners
- pens and notepads
- car window stickers
- tax disc holders
Some of these items can be purchased from KCC, others will be available free from KCC.
To find out more please contact us.
How much does it cost to set up a private group?
Below is an indication of the costs associated with such scheme please contact us to discuss these
Employee Numbers |
Set-Up and First
Years Licence |
Second Year
Licence |
1-99 |
£500.00 |
£400.00 |
100-199 |
£700.00 |
£400.00 |
200 – 499 |
£1100.00 |
£700.00 |
500 – 999 |
£1400.00 |
£1000.00 |
1,000 + |
£1700.00 |
£1400.00 |
The annual licence covers the costs of the scheme and also maintaining the system and client support and a wide range of activities;
- Licence to access and use the regional and national liftshare network
- Licence to access and use the unique matching system
- Licence to access the reporting functions (monitoring)
- Hosting all web pages
- Hosting all monitoring pages
- Server administration (firewalls, DNS, Routing, Data security)
- DDA compliance
- Data and database management
- Maintaining all web pages
- Maintaining all monitoring pages
- Any updates to the system are typically rolled out Free of Charge
- Enable clients to access other liftshare support services such as regional marketing and training seminars
To find out more please contact us.
New Ways 2 Work
New Ways 2 Work is a scheme that encourages businesses and employees to rethink the way they use cars for work - for commuting and for business travel.
The main aim of the scheme is to reduce the number of cars on the road - particularly cars with a single occupant. If we can do this, then the roads will be less congested, journeys will be faster, and less money and time will be wasted in traffic.
There are steps organisations can take. You can ask us to help you set up a comprehensive Company Travel Plan.
Or you could start by setting up a car sharing scheme.
New Ways 2 Work will help companies and organisations to:
- save space on parking
- reduce transport costs
- ease the congestion around their premises
- get fitter and more motivated staff
- fulfil planning requirements
- enhance the corporate image
What's more, employees will be able to:
- improve their fitness, be less stressed and be more productive
- save money on petrol and parking
- save time lost in traffic or trying to parking
Plus we'll all be able to help the environment by causing less pollution, and ease the impact of peak-time traffic and parking on the local community.
Other initiative such as Walk, Bike and Taxi Buddy are also available
Kent County Council's own Travel Plan for County Hall, as part of the New Ways 2 Work initiative, won the ACT (Association of Commuter Transport) Award in 2004
Contact us
To request a New Ways 2 Work brochure, or advice on New Ways 2 Work, travel plans or car sharing schemes, contact the Kent County Council Travel Planning kentcarshare@kent.gov.uk
Company Travel Plans
Find out what a company travel plan could do for you, and how Kent County Council can help. Kent County Council's Travel Plan page.
