Travel

Travel, both business and commuting, forms a significant proportion of the University’s carbon footprint. The University encourages staff and students to use more sustainable forms of transport, such as public transport, car share, cycling or walking, rather than single occupancy car journeys.

There is no single solution to all of the University’s travel needs; the University is committed to promoting sustainable travel options to enable staff and students to make informed decisions about which travel mode to use. We are continually improving provisions for cyclists, walkers and public transport users.

What can I do?

• Where possible, walk, cycle or use public transport - choosing a more sustainable form of transport can reduce our carbon emissions, help you get more active and save you money!
• Use virtual meetings as an alternative to travel
• Drive Smarter – following these tips from the Energy Saving Trust could improve your mpg by up to 15%
• Use the University's regular free shuttle bus to travel between Hope Park, Creative Campus and Aigburth Park
• Download Merseytravel’s free journey planner app. The app provides a range of timetables and map information for all public transport operators across Merseyside, as well as door to door journey plans for trains, buses, ferry services and scheduled departures from a specific location
• Staff can purchase a cycle through salary sacrifice, to commute to work, through the University's Cycle2Work Scheme (see the cycling pages for more details)
• Keep up to date with updates from Merseytravel and Liverpool City Council

Initiatives

• Using a single travel management company – Selective Travel Management to book all air and rail travel and accommodation – reducing the travel risk for our staff and students
• Cycle2Work offers staff the opportunity to purchase a cycle through salary sacrifice (see the Cycling page for more information). 
• Working with Merseytravel to research and inform their transport provision to students
• A dedicated student webpage has been launched for all your travel needs
• The University surveys staff and student every two years to inform the initiatives and measures we put in place to allow staff and students to make informed choices about the mode of transport that they use and to promote sustainable travel options

Did you know?

• 10,000 steps equals about five miles, most of us walk 4,500 a day
• 54% of staff and 60% of students live within five miles of the University; ideal for thinking about more sustainable forms of transport
• If everyone lift-shared one day a week, traffic on the roads would be reduced by 20% and there would be less congestion on the roads

Useful resources

• Arriva
• Arrive Happy - Walking and cycling can save you money, time and hassle. Find out how it can make you feel better and how you can get around the Liverpool City Region under your own steam.
• Better Roads - Liverpool is spending £300m on its roads over the next few years to make the city a better place to live, work and visit.
• Bike4Life – An NHS led initiative
• Bike Right
• Choose Freedom - Walk and rides around Liverpool
• Cycling in Liverpool
• Energy Saving Trust
• GPS walking and cycling routes – showing all the UKs national trials
• Living Streets - for everyday walking
• Mega bus
• Merseyrail
• Merseytravel
• Network Rail
• NHS - information on physical activity guidelines and further information on the benefits of walking, cycling and running
• Sky | Ride
• Stagecoach
• Sustrans – providing creative, innovative and practical solutions to the transport challenges that affect us all
• Voi - e-scooter information 
• Walkit – the urban walking route planner
• Walk4Life – An NHS led initiative
• Walking for Health – encouraging people to be physically in their local communities, a joint initiative between the Ramblers and Macmillan Cancer Support.

Cycling can offer a cheap, quick, fun and healthy way of travelling to the University; especially if you live within 5km. Cycling is:

• Efficient – often the quickest way to travel by avoiding traffic jams and no parking problems
• Healthy - it is a great way to keep fit and is one of the easiest ways to incorporate exercise into your daily routine. Just 30 minutes of cycling at a moderate speed can burn over 200 calories
• Cost-saving – no costs for parking permits or fuel
• Green – carbon free travel

Keep safe and be visible by using lights and wearing high visibility clothing, purchasing a secure lock, marking your cycle with your cycle and obeying the law by following the Highway Code.

What can I do?

• Use a D-lock to secure your cycle to one of the designated external bicycle parking areas
• Cycle2Work offers staff the opportunity to purchase a cycle through salary sacrifice
  • Cycle2Work leaflet
  • Cycle2Work Mythbuster
  • Cycle2Work FAQs
• Check out our Safe Cycling Guide
• Sign up as a member of Liverpool’s on-street scooter hire operated by Voi.  Please note, use and parking of the scooters is not permitted within the campus grounds.  
• Join CyclingWorks and compete against those with Hope and companies within Merseyside - log the distances that you’ve cycled, set personal goals, monitor the money that you are saving by cycling, the mileage that you clock up and the calories that you burn.

Buses and trains are a great way to reduce the stress of travelling to work – let someone else do the driving while you read a book or paper, or listen to music. Travelling by bus or train:

• Reduces air pollution, see Stagecoach and Arriva for information on their cleaner, greener buses
• Lowers your carbon footprint – per mile emissions are significantly lower than for car travel. The shuttle bus was used for around 73,000 journeys during 2011-12 with a carbon footprint of 99 tonnes; if those same journeys were made by car the carbon emissions would be over 3500 tonnes!
• No need for parking
• No need to sit in congested traffic

Staff can buy an annual Arriva travel ticket via monthly direct debit

Arriva Click has arrived in Liverpool - the app based executive minibus service that takes multiple passengers all heading in the same direction. 

Walking is something that most of us do every day; without realising it is a cheap, reliable and effective way of getting about. It is something that you can normally make time for without too much of a change to your daily routine, either by walking to work, walking to the shops, or the final distance from the bus stop.

Walking has many advantages:

• Fantastic for keeping fit and strengthening the body, especially the heart, bones and muscles, and there’s no need for expensive gym membership
  
  • 10,000 steps for long term health and reduced chronic disease risk
  • 12,000 to 15,000 steps for successful, sustained weight loss
  • 3,000 steps should be at a brisk pace to build aerobic fitness
• Makes us feels less stressed and happier
• Cut the cost of commuting
• Gives more time for yourself to think, unwind, listen to music, or just enjoy the walk

If running is more your thing, put your best foot forward with these running shoe tips.

Staff and students are encouraged to seek other methods of transport other than car use, particularly driving on your own, though we are aware that car travel is necessary in some circumstances. Click the below links for helpful information about parking at Liverpool Hope University.

• Drive Smarter
• Parking at Hope Park
• Parking at the Creative Campus