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Bristol City Council workers sign-up to Enterprise car-share pilot
Date: 08 May 2014 | Author: Martin Gurdon
Bristol City Council is using Enterprise Rent-A-Car's CarShare operation to run a pilot vehicle-sharing scheme.
The by-the-hour initiative, which factors in costs including fuel, is being offered to 160 council staff who commute to inner city Bristol.
So far, 95 have signed up and have been issued with swipe cards that give them access to the scheme's cars. The pilot will last for nine months.
"We want to move away from mileage reimbursement," said Bristol City Council's fleet manager Nick Gingell. "Where employees use their own cars for business trips it's expensive, time-consuming to administer, and causes both traffic and parking congestion around our offices and the city.
"Plus we have no control over the CO2 emissions of those cars."
He continued: "Enterprise ran a number of 'signing up' sessions for those staff requiring use of a CarShare vehicle, to help them understand what we're trying to achieve.
"During the sessions they worked with our own officers to check driving licences, issue membership cards, demonstrate the booking system and go through the rules for using the cars."
The council is also cutting back on parking spaces, encouraging home working and introducing a salary-sacrifice scheme to buy bus tickets and bicycles.
