Sharing is caring when it comes to driving-down carbon emissions.
How our car-sharing scheme helps employees on Prologis Parks get to work, reduces local traffic and safeguards the environment.
In 2008, working with Liftshare UK, our in-house Property Management Team set up the very first car-sharing scheme at Prologis Park Kettering. Since then, they have worked hard to introduce Liftshare schemes across our network of Prologis Parks, using the scheme in Northamptonshire as an outstanding example of how car-sharing can reduce local traffic, save employees money and dramatically reduce CO₂ emissions.
13 years later, our car-sharing scheme with Liftshare UK has grown from one member to an incredible 2000 members, all of whom benefit from the social, financial and environmental benefits that sharing a vehicle brings.
“Sharing the car journey to and from work makes sense for all sorts of reasons,” Mark Hand, Business Development Director at Liftshare UK explains. “For employees it’s an opportunity to reduce costs and make new friends, for local communities it means less traffic on the road and for the environment it represents a dramatic reduction in Co₂ emissions.”
“Many of us share cars on a regular basis with our friends and family, without thinking about it.” Mark continues; however, there are often times when a driver has empty seats simply because they don't know anyone who needs a lift or they might not be aware of the benefits of sharing.”
The Prologis Green Travel Scheme encourages organised car sharing across Prologis Parks by connecting people travelling in the same direction so they can arrange to travel together and share the costs, whilst also reducing congestion and pollution.
Joining the scheme is simple and completely free of charge. Employees simply register their details on the Prologis Green Travel website and then activate their account. Once they've registered their journey, they are presented with other journeys matching their. Once they’ve found a suitable match from the results, they can then contact the member(s) using and internal messaging system.
“We know that getting employees to and from work is an important factor for our customers when choosing a location for their logistics building,” Steve Haddock, Real Estate and Customer Experience Director for Prologis UK explains. “We also know that increased traffic can be a concern for local residents and that the cost of the journey to and from work is often a consideration for employees. When you add this together with the environmental concerns around car journeys and the fact that around 60% of journeys on UK roads are made by a single driver, introducing a Green Travel Scheme was the obvious solution.”
For the past five years, we’ve been measuring the positive financial and environmental impact of our Green Travel Scheme and the results speak for themselves.
“Liftshare did a few things for me. As a new person on site it gave me a really easy way to find a Liftshare, the system was easy to navigate and I was able to locate a convenient share with a colleague. This enabled me to make a friend and made my life coming to site easier as he introduced me to several other people also.”
Employee, Prologis Park Wellingborough