WSP/Parsons Brinckerhoff to collaborate with Go Travel Solutions on major sustainable travel project

WSP/Parsons Brinckerhoff has commissioned specialist sustainable transport consultancy, Go Travel Solutions, to support their delivery of a new Go Smarter Business Network in areas of North East England. The Go Smarter Business Network has been developed to meet the transport needs of businesses across the North East Combined Authority (NECA) area and help encourage employees to adopt a greener commute to work. The Network will be focused around four facilitated meetings per year where members can h
June 24, 2016 Read time: 2 mins
6666 WSP/4983 Parsons Brinckerhoff has commissioned specialist sustainable transport consultancy, Go Travel Solutions, to support their delivery of a new Go Smarter Business Network in areas of North East England.

The Go Smarter Business Network has been developed to meet the transport needs of businesses across the North East Combined Authority (NECA) area and help encourage employees to adopt a greener commute to work.

The Network will be focused around four facilitated meetings per year where members can hear from professionals in this field and share knowledge and best practice with each other. It also provides member organisations with access to exclusive travel discounts for their staff through membership of Go Travel Solutions’ Smartgo workplace travel programme.

Aside from its involvement in the Go Smarter Business Network, Smartgo operates workplace travel networks in other areas of the country with more planned. Smartgo has been developed to provide employers and their staff with a package of travel discounts and a web based membership system to engage employers and their staff.

For more information on companies in this article

Related Content

  • WSP/Parsons Brinckerhoff - Driving towards driverless
    October 7, 2016
    WSP/Parsons Brinckerhoff US-based manager for Sustainable Transportation Lauren Isaac, who is to speak on connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV) at the forthcoming ITS World Congress in Melbourne, suggests in a research paper, Driving Towards Driverless, that new AV world will be either a nightmare or utopia. She suggests that which scenario plays out will largely depend on the amount of vehicle sharing future road users are prepared to accept. For example, close to full automation and ride sharing would e
    Read More
  • WSP/Parsons Brinckerhoff shortlisted for two prestigious industry awards
    September 14, 2016
    WSP/ Parsons Brinckerhoff has been shortlisted for two Australian Engineering Excellence Awards for work on the Capital Metro Light Rail in Canberra and the North Strathfield Rail Underpass (NSRU) in Sydney. The Capital Metro Light Rail project involves creating a 12 kilometre light rail line in Canberra city’s north. The company provided planning and environment services, which included preparing the largest, most complex Environment Impact Statement in the history of the territory. The NSRU proje
    Read More
  • WSP/Parsons Brinckerhoff to develop Staten Island transportation improvement strategy
    March 22, 2016
    WSP/Parsons Brinckerhoff is to develop a transportation improvement strategy (TIS) to address existing congestion and physical/geometrical issues as well as projected future development on the North Shore of Staten Island. The study, which emerges from the recommendations developed as part of the North Shore 2030 Plan, will be carried out on behalf of the New York City Economic Development Corporation, the New York City Department of City Planning and the New York City Department of Transportation. The s
    Read More
  • WTS International: Attract, Connect, Sustain, Advance
    December 7, 2022
    WTS International exists to connect transportation professionals, and to help prepare the next generation of the mobility workforce. But it takes everyone to create change, says Lindsay Shelton-Gross
    Read More

Highlighted Content