Commuting account

Summary

• Employees drive 43 749 car trips alone per year, and EUR 206 234 of their own money goes to variable car costs.
• Largest opportunity: 54 employees could realistically switch away from the car (2 to 20 km commute, no pick-up constraint).
• Recommended first measure: carpooling scheme. 36.8 % of the employees who could realistically switch away from the car point to it themselves.

Method and data

Based on 168 responses from 240 reported employees (70 %), collected anonymously, and never computed from fewer than 5 responses. Estimates from public sources are marked [E]. Computed under GHG Protocol category 7 (distance-based method). The employee count is the one you provided at ordering: this report does not include a register cross-check. CO₂ figures use the Dutch national emission factor list (fleet average per vehicle kilometre, maintained by Rijkswaterstaat and Stichting Stimular). The report contains no absence potential in money: no official rate exists in your country for the cost of an absence day, and we omit a figure rather than use an industry number without a documented method. The absence picture is reported in days instead, from what respondents stated themselves.

The confidence level is computed automatically from the response rate and cannot be overridden, by you or by us: VERIFIED from 65 %, MEDIUM from 40 %, INDICATIVE below that. This is exactly why the number is worth something. Lerka does not issue a label and does not certify: what you can show externally is the number, the response rate and the method, with the measurement date.

Figures marked [E] are estimates: modelled from public sources or derived from answer bands, never direct measurements (the factor table accompanies the method). Unmarked figures are measured in your own survey.

The baseline

How the travel days are distributed

37.5 % travel more by car in winter · 53 % park for free · 7.7 % pay for parking themselves

The cost picture

CO₂: ~156.7 tonnes/year [E]

WPM data annex

The figures below can be read directly into your own WPM report (werkgebonden personenmobiliteit): commuting kilometres per mode of transport, the kilometres driven alone by car, split per fuel, and lease kilometres separated out. The annex covers the commuting part: business travel lives in your own travel and lease systems and is not included.

12.7 % of the car kilometres lack a fuel answer. They are included in the row above, but not in the fuel split.

Method: the kilometres are scaled up to the full workforce, like every other figure in the report, and no row is calculated from fewer than 5 answers. Three documented deviations from the handbook's question list (chapter 6): we do not collect PC6 postcodes (distance is asked directly, for anonymity), the rows for mopeds and scooters, including speed pedelecs, in table 5 are not covered by our day distribution, and neither are the two rows for the motorcycle. The fuel split and the lease split cover only the kilometres driven alone by car. Carpooling kilometres appear in the mode list only.