We aim to make encouraging carpooling as easy as possible for employers. Take your pick from our range of practical resources

• Marketing materials
• Priority parking
• Emergency ride start up package
• Guidelines for employers

Marketing materials

Posters

Choose from three poster designs. Each have a ready to print version and one for you to add your own logo.

Wellington A4 posters                   Wellington A3 posters
       (with/out logo)                             (with/out logo)

Christchurch A4 poster

Christchurch A3 poster

Brochure for staff

This handy fold out brochure is great for lunchrooms and notice boards.

Intranet/Internet text and images

Here are some text and images  you can use on your intranet or internet site.

Sample text:

Title: Let’s Carpool – the easy way to carpool

Let's Carpool is the new, convenient way to carpool to work.

All you need to do is register, follow a few quick steps and we’ll find carpooling matches for you.
We make it easy for you to say goodbye to those long solo drives to and from work, and hello to more money in your pocket with lower fuel costs each week. And that's just one of the many reasons to carpool.

Go to www.letscarpool.govt.nz to find out more and start carpooling today!

Email text

Feel free to edit and use this email text to send out to staff.

Dear all
Our workplace has recently signed up to Let’s Carpool, an initiative to help commuters find like minded people to carpool to work with. Carpooling is the smarter commute for a number of reasons: Carpooling saves you money, provides a more sociable commute and the planet will love you for it.

All you need to do is go to www.letscarpool.govt.nz,  follow a few easy steps, and the secure software does the matching for you. If you have any questions, please contact ……

Add your logo and customised text to web pages

As a workplace signed up to Let's Carpool, you can customise the registration page and menu page your staff see with your own text and logo. This is a great way to add contact details of someone staff can talk to and talk about what you may offer carpoolers at your workplace. See the example below and contact us if you'd like to do this.

Run a competition for your staff

You can also run a competition which only your staff are eligible for. Contact us to find out more.

Priority parking

Priority car parks for carpoolers are one of the best ways for an employer to encourage staff to carpool. Reserving car parks in the most convenient location or reducing any parking charges demonstrates an employer’s commitment to staff who choose to carpool.

Carpool parks can be administered in a couple of ways:

• For employers with a small number of parks, simply allocate one car park to a group of carpoolers. This group always parks in the same spot.
• For employers with a large number of carparks, or when staff carpool with different people each day or most staff carpool only on one or two days per week; permits are issued to the car-poolers themselves. Each carpooler has one permit. Two or more permits must be displayed on the dashboard to be eligible for the carpool park.

Please contact us for priority parking permits and signage.

Emergency ride start up package (Wellington only)

This starter kit will help you to establish a successful Emergency ride home (ERH) programme for your workplace.

Many workplaces would like to offer their carpooling employees a taxi ride home or to a school, or a hospital in the event of an emergency, but are unsure how much this would cost. International research shows, offering an emergency ride home can significantly increase the success of workplace carpooling schemes and is typically very affordable.

Let’s Carpool is supporting workplaces who would like to offer their employees an Emergency Ride Home, by covering costs for a six month trial. At the end of the six month trial your workplace will have a clear idea of the costs of offering this to your staff longer term. This financial support is based on the ERH Partnership Agreement that GW and the employer need to sign before starting the trial.
 

To get started download the emergency ride start up package at the bottom of this page.

Guidelines for employers

Read the New Zealand Transport Agency’s carpooling guidelines on how to set up a great workplace carpooling scheme.