Smart Commute
Smart Commute helps Greater Toronto/Hamilton Area (GTA & H) employers and employees use sustainable ways of getting to and from work, such as carpooling, cycling and transit.
Smart Commute is brought to you by Metrolinx and the Greater Toronto/Hamilton Area municipalities.
Goals
- Reduce traffic jams, make the air cleaner and lower greenhouse gas emissions.
- Make commuting cheaper and more enjoyable.
Services
Smart Commute offers employers ways to help make commuting easier, cheaper and less harmful to the environment.
- Carpool Zone: Carpooling/vanpooling “ride-matching” to help employees find others with the same starting point, destination, travel time and work hours.
- Clean Air Commute and other fun events.
- Clean commuting workshops and lunch-and-learns.
- Emergency Ride programs.
- Incentives and promotions.
- Information on time and money-saving alternatives such as teleworking, shortened work weeks and flex hours.
- Shuttle programs.
- Site studies and surveys to learn how employees feel about commuting
Commuter savings
In just 5 years, Carpool Zone users have saved over $10 million and prevented 24,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions (equalling the weight of about 9 million clay/shale bricks).
Cleaner commuting links
Smart Commute Services
Consider these easier, cheaper, more flexible ways to get to and from work.
