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.
Get There Webinars
Join Get There Portland Metro and partners for a series of webinars aimed at helping local employers navigate employee commute benefits.
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In this session, you’ll learn practical, actionable strategies to support bike commuting at your workplace year-round, including:
Infrastructure and facilities that make biking easier
Incentives that drive participation
Employee engagement strategies that sustain momentum
You’ll also hear real-world insights and examples from local organizations like OHSU and The Street Trust working to support bike commuting across the Portland region.
Whether you’re just getting started or looking to strengthen an existing program, this webinar will give you tools you can put into action right away.
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Learn about Get There Connect's new functionality and how reward and incentive programs can enhance your workplace commute benefits program in this one-hour webinar. New year, fresh tool–learn how easy it is to help employees get started today.
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Learn the basics of how to create a commute benefits program from our partners at TriMet, Portland Bureau of Transportation and hear first-hand experiences from LAIKA animation studios’ Sustainability Lead, Carla Chen.
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Whether you are preparing for your employees to return to your worksite or looking for new ways to support your frontline staff, this webinar will help you find ways to engage employees in getting moving again.
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This webinar brings together leadership from three major, local employers to discuss how they are transitioning for a future that includes hybrid, remote, and in-office work.
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This webinar features area employers that are offering commute programs on a budget with low-cost and no-cost transportation incentives that meet employee’s needs. Two employers with varying work environments, employee schedules, and transportation situations are showcased, plus TriMet will review the basics of commute benefits for your workplace.