Whether for the journey to the office or to a meeting: according to a survey, employees generally use their car to get to work. Even in summer, more than two thirds of respondents travel to work by car or motorcycle, according to the study by the Institute for Mobility at the University of St. Gallen. Of these, 83 per cent stated that they drive a combustion-engine vehicle.
This means that commuter traffic still has considerable potential with regard to the traffic turnaround. According to the survey, more than 40 per cent of all traffic in Germany is attributable to work-related journeys. With appropriate offers, employers could encourage their employees to switch to alternative means of transport.
According to the survey, many companies are already trying to do this. More than half of the employers surveyed offer employees the Job-Ticket for regional and local public transport. In most cases, employees receive a subsidy for the public transport season ticket (in Germany: €58 per month).
