Commute Solutions Resources
Build better commutes for a thriving workforce
Get There Portland Metro helps area employers solve transportation challenges by connecting employees to better commutes such as walking, biking, carpooling, vanpooling, and using public transit.
Employee commutes greatly impact work experience, including satisfaction, retention, productivity, and well-being. Offering inexpensive, sustainable, and reliable commute options can help foster a happier, healthier, and more productive workforce.
Get There Portland Metro staff and partners can help you find the commute benefit solutions that best fit your needs, connect you with inexpensive ways to promote taking travel options to your employees, and more!
Visit our free services and news & events page to learn more, or get started today through our simple online form to connect with our staff. We’re here to help!
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Energize + Grow Your Workforce: How Commute Solutions Serve Business Needs
Learn the basics of commute benefit programs, and how they can support your workplace goals.
Improve Employee Wellness and Productivity: Try Commute Options!
Enhance health, job satisfaction, productivity, and employee retention.
Greener Commutes Sustainability Solutions
Reduce environmental impacts while meeting organizational goals.
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Learn how to create, improve, and implement commute benefit programs that improve your employees’ commutes and your business.
GTPM Commute Benefit Program Guide
Build a commute benefit program with this comprehensive step-by-step guide.
Better Commutes Survey Solutions
Commuter survey benefits, best practices, and available free survey services and tools.
Commute Ambassadors
Become a Workplace Commute Ambassador by inspiring coworkers to walk, bike, carpool, or take transit.
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Find commute options designed to support sustainable and efficient employee commutes.
Better Commutes: Transit Solutions
Benefits of providing transit options, plus details on pre-tax benefits.
Smart Solutions for the Hybrid Work Era
Design hybrid work models and learn the benefits.
Better Commutes: Bicycling Solutions
Support your employees to commute by bicycling and learn the benefits.
Vanpool Coordination Handbook
Start, join, and manage a successful vanpool program.
Better Commutes: Carpooling Solutions
Connect employees to carpooling using free tools and support.
Better Commutes: Vanpooling Solutions
Start and run a successful vanpool program at your workplace.
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Implement programs at your workplace to encourage and reward employee commute options use.
Parking Cash-out
Encourage the use of commute options by rewarding employees for not using a parking space.
Incentive & Reward Programs
Inspire and reward employees for using commute options by offering challenge and incentive programs through Get There Connect.
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Use Oregon’s free tool, Get There Connect, to support your commute programs.
Make Commutes Better Using Oregon’s Get There Connect Tool—FREE!
Learn how Get There Connect works, its features, and how to get started with a network.
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Learn all about the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality’s Employee Commute Options (ECO) rules for large employers.
ECO Rules Sample Trip Reduction Plan
Trip reduction plan sample that meets ECO Rules requirements.
ECO Fact Sheet
Basics of the ECO Rules in Oregon and how to comply.