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How Businesses Can Benefit from Employee Transportation Programs

The Transportation to Work: A Toolkit for the Business Community website, an online resource from the Community Transportation Association of America (CTAA), offers companies information on how to build a simple, cost-effective transportation program that’s good for their employees and their businesses. The Toolkit provides information on topics such as tax incentives, ridesharing and vanpools, green transportation, and supporting employees with disabilities, among others.

Says Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, “Especially during challenging economic times, when so many businesses are struggling, the CTAA Transportation to Work Toolkit is a valuable resource to build an employee transportation program that is a win-win for all.”

Studies show that employers who provide transportation benefits for their workforce also gain rewards in other ways for their companies, such as attracting and retaining workers, supporting public transit, increasing customer access to goods and services, and more.  “For members of the community with specialized mobility needs, such as people with disabilities, older workers, youth and low-income earners, transportation is often the link that makes employment in good jobs possible,” says Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis.

For more information on how to benefit your business while promoting job satisfaction, please visit the CTAA Transportation to Work: A Toolkit for the Business Community website.

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