For Employers & Other Sites

• Looking for simple tax-free or low-cost ways to offer benefits to talented employees and/or to people who visit your location?

• Searching for ways to reduce parking needs and costs for your organization, tenants or visitors – or need to complete a Transportation Demand Management Plan?

• Want to encourage team building and improve employee retention and reliability and physical & mental health?

• Looking for ways to boost your environmental and public health stewardship as an institution?

Save time, money, and stay ahead of the game with these consultations.

Listed are two of Cushman Transportation Consulting, LLC’s most popular packages. All can be adjusted to your business or organization’s particular circumstance. If you think of something else you would like to set up, feel free to ask.

• $120/hour or customized package – TDM Planning & Encouraging the Use of Alternate Modes – For businesses or organizations interested in reducing parking, health care, and payroll costs; employee team building; reducing your carbon footprint; and/or drafting or implementing volunteer or required Transportation Demand Management (TDM) plans.  Can include:
  • assistance with revamping or developing equitable transportation subsidies and policies for your workplace (parking subsidy, transit passes, preferential parking for carpoolers, bicycle and walking incentives, parking cash out system, etc.)
  • assistance with setting up federal qualified tax-free transportation fringe benefits for employees that reduce employer payroll taxes
  • strategic and/or Transportation Demand Management (TDM) planning for broad transportation choice – includes step-by-step overview of local alternate transportation options – tailored to specific organizational needs
  • assistance with incentive and encouragement programs for employees’ use of active transportation; tailoring to meet each party’s circumstance (where they live, where they work, lifestyle, activities, etc.)
  • education for organizations and employees on the financial and environmental benefits of walking, biking, carpooling, using carshares, taking public transit, and telecommuting
  • assessment of business or organization-related automobile trips and transportation needs
  • hands-on training for using active transportation (e.g., training for bike commuting, help with linking to various carpool networks and carshares, navigating the bus, tips for walking, set-ups for telecommuting, etc.)
  • environmentally-responsible and financially savvy car maintenance education – to ensure dependable employee transportation.

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  Leading an Eco-Driving Training for fleet drivers

  $750 – 15 Minute “Lunch & Learn” Commute-Another-Way and/or Eco-Driving Trainings – For businesses or organizations interested in offering an employee benefit that  improves the reliability of employee transportation, decreases time during the work day spent on personal business, and builds morale. Four 15 minute lunch sessions – can be set up for different time intervals (all four over one week, once a week for four weeks, once a month for four months, etc.) Includes fun exercises and Q&A on various topics including:

  • commuting to work another way (e.g., behavior change nudges and social norms, training for bike commuting, help with linking to various carpool networks and carshares, navigating the bus, tips for walking, set-ups for telecommuting, etc.)
  • cost-saving and crucial car maintenance, true financial costs of car ownership and tips for budgeting, money-saving driving tips and planning for maintenance.

Contact CTC and Sarah if you have questions or would like to explore a particular package.

Cushman Transportation Consulting, LLC can assist your business or organization to plan strategically for your transportation needs and the needs of your employees. This leads to happier employees and saves you money. Plus you then serve as public health and environmental stewards in your community. Reliable and comprehensive transportation choice are the best financial and environmental fit for your workplace, school, organization, residential site, events venue, place of worship, or other congregating site.

Recent and current clients include:

• multi-use housing developments at Riverton Park, Lambert Woods, Mercy Hospital on State Street, the Portland Housing Authority and Youth & Family Outreach site at 337 Cumberland, 52 Hanover Street, 200 Federal Street, and 178 Kennebec Street’s senior housing development
• multi-use commercial/institutional projects such as WEX and the Roux Institute at 100 Fore Street and 0 Hancock Street, Thompson’s Point, St. Lawrence Arts Center, the Shipyard Redevelopment, the Baxter Academy for Science and Technology, 321 Commercial Street, and 82 Hanover Street
• Workplace Transformation Facilitation