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Employer Outreach Tools
These tools can help you with your Spare the Air Employer Program, whether you are a small or large employer, just starting your program or building or improving one. They include driving facts and figures, calculators, commuter tax benefit information, guaranteed emergency ride home information, tips for marketing a commute program, and graphics and articles for your newsletters.
Driving Facts and Figures Here are some interesting statistics about driving and automobile use that you can share with your employees. Calculators The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has developed a web-based Business Benefits Calculator that enables an employer considering the Commuter Choice Leadership Initiative to estimate the financial, environmental, traffic-related, and other benefits of joining the program. RIDES for Bay Area Commuters has developed a Commute Calculator. Use this calculator to find out the true cost of your drive-alone commute or that of your employees. How much do you spend on your commute? It may be more than you think... Articles Here are five newsletter articles to be used in their entirety, excerpted or, if you prefer, rewritten for your specific needs. To place the text of any of these stories directly into your word processor or layout program, you simply: 1.click on the story icon 2.highlight the text you want to use 3.cut, then paste into your publication draft.
Commuter Tax Benefit Information The EPA's Commuter Choice Leadership Initiative has created several Commuter Benefit Briefs which provide a comprehensive summary of each commuter benefit. The briefs are written in an easy to follow question-and-answer format and cover a range of issues, such as implementation, costs, and available resources.
The Tri-Valley Resource Team has developed an informative Commuter Choice Tax Benefits document. This four-page PDF file explains what commuter tax benefits are, how employers can implement commuter choice programs, offers mentoring contacts, and contains contact information for a variety of vendors and agencies involved in helping employers to get commuter choice programs started at their worksites. Learn how you can help your employees Spare the Air by getting out of their cars and onto transit or into vanpooling. Guaranteed/Emergency Ride Home Information Guaranteed ride home provides employees who commute via transit, carpool or vanpool with transportation home in the event of a personal emergency. The EPA has created a Guaranteed/Emergency Ride Home Briefing Paper (PDF) to provide employers with more information on the subject. Commuter Resource Guide The Southern Alameda County Air Quality Resource Team produced the Alameda County Commuter Resource Guide (PDF) for residents of Alameda County. The guide is intended as a tool for employers to inform their employees about commute alternatives in Alameda County. The online guide features useful information and helpful "hot" links. Print copies of the Commuter Resource Guide are also being distributed to members of the Hayward Chamber of Commerce. If you want print copies of the Commuter Resource Guide, please contact Jim Smith at Community Focus, (415) 975-2955 x7. Graphics AirUpdate allows you to easily display current Air Quality Index (AQI) forecasts on your web site. Choose a forecast city and one of eight visual styles, and you will receive a short line of code to place on your web site. Simple instructions make installation easy. AirUpdate automatically updates with the most current air quality forecast from the EPA AIRNow program, providing up-to-date information for your web site visitors. Registration is required; the service is free. If you need a Spare the Air logo in an electronic file for your publication, download one here. Simply click on the image you need and choose the option that will save the file to your desired local directory.
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