Employer Services

The Whatcom Smart Trips office offers free materials and services to CTR Worksites and Smart Trips Employer Partners.

Services include promotional materials such as display centers, personalized posters, brochures, bus passes, prepackaged promotions, and matching prize money for promotional contests. Presentations to employees and other training opportunities are also available.

The materials and services available at each worksite vary according to the number of employees.

• Smart Trip Makers at your Worksite
• Materials
• Order Materials
• Services
• Useful Links
• Tools for CTR Employers

Smart Trip Makers at Your Worksite

View or download reports of employees who record Smart Trips.  Use these reports to provide your own benefits to Smart Trips makers, in addition to the incentives provided by the Whatcom Smart Trips program. Smart Trip Makers choose which trips are viewable by their worksite coordinator: all trips, work trips, or no trips. Reports include all participants, but not necessarily all their trips.

Materials

• Employee Recognition Posters
  The Whatcom Smart Trips Office will create posters featuring photos and stories of real Smart Trip Makers at your worksite. Acknowledge Smart Trip Makers and inspire others to give it a try. Large employers only.

• Employee Transportation Maps
  Employee Transportation Maps show walking, bicycling, rideshare, and bus opportunities for individual employees. Large employers only.
• Employee home addresses are plotted as numbered dots on maps. Only the Employee Transportation Coordinator knows the names of employees associated with each address.
• Shows WTA bus routes, designated park and ride lots, a one-mile walking radius, and a four-mile bicycling radius around the worksite.


• Preferential Parking Signs and Permits
  Mark preferential parking spaces for carpoolers and vanpoolers with metal rideshare parking signs in your lot. Numbered dashboard permits are also available. Large employers only.

• Bulletin Boards and Displays
  One-stop access to brochures and information about Smart Trips, worksite programs, and rideshare matching. Identifying the Employee Transportation Coordinator fulfills a CTR requirement.

• Smart Trips Brochures
  Explains the rewards available to Smart Trip Makers, such as prize drawings and the Smart Trips Discount. Also serves as a paper entry form for people who don't have Internet access.

• Worksite Program Brochures
  Individualized for your worksite. Tell your employees how to find commuting help and information at your worksite. Point out nearby trails and bus routes. Point out benefits and services, such as Emergency Ride Home and the Smart Trips Discount. Fulfills a CTR requirement. Large employers only.

• Emergency Ride Home Brochures
  Explains when one can use and how to use the free emergency taxi service operated by WTA for Smart Trip makers and bus riders.

• Smart Trips Map of Bellingham
  Shows trails, bicycle routes, bus routes and bus stops as well as many businesses and destinations that can be accessed on foot, by bicycle and by bus.

• Walking Safely Brochures
  Provides facts and safety tips for walking

• Walk & Bicycle to Better Health Brochures
  Provides facts and tips for using active transportation

• Shopping on Foot and by Bike Brochures
  Provides tips for transporting shopping items on foot and by bike

• Confident City Cycling Brochures
  Provides tips for sharing the road safely and confidently with motorists

• Bicycle Traffic Laws Brochures
  Explains rights and responsibilities for bicyclists in Washington State

• Share the Road: Rules for Motorists Information Sheets
  Provides tips for motorists for sharing the road safely and courteously with bicyclists

• Bicycling Resources Brochures
  Describes everybodyBIKE classes and services to help children and adults learn how to bicycle safely in Whatcom County

• Bicycle Commute Guide Booklet
  Provides in-depth information on riding a bike for transportation. Covers clothing, choosing and outfitting a bike, carrying gear and more.

• Bicycle Express Brochures
  Provides easy instruction on how to load your bike onto WTA's bike racks.

• Bicycle Map
  Shows trails and bicycle routes in Bellingham and Whatcom County.

• WTA Transit Guide
  Maps and schedules for all routes in Whatcom County, plus route 80X to Mt. Vernon.

• WTA System Map
  A fold-out color map depicting all bus routes, county-wide.

• One Free Ride Coupons
  Coupons good for one free ride on WTA buses are available to include in new hire packets and to give to employees who attend transit workshops.

• Take the Bus to Parks and Trails Brochure
  Shows how to reach 14 popular parks by bus.

• Specialized Transportation Brochure
  Provides information about WTA's point-to-point services for elderly and disabled riders.

• Active Transportation for Children Brochures
  Learn how children see traffic and how to prepare them for safe, fun, active transportation.

• From A to Z by Bike
  A colorfully illustrated activity book that instructs kids of all ages how to ride safely.

Order Materials

Use this Materials Order Form to order the materials listed on this website. You can also click on individual items to open the order form.

Services

• Smart Trips website and incentives
  This prepackaged incentive program is the foundation for your worksite program. Let us motivate and reward your employees, track their Smart Trips, and enter them in prize drawings – at no charge to you.

• Worksite Presentations to Employees
  Whatcom Smart Trips staff, WTA staff, and other commute mode experts are available to make on-site presentations to groups of interested employees.

• everybodyBIKE
  everybodyBIKE is the bicycle education program for Whatcom Smart Trips. Employees of Smart Trips Employer Partners can register for everybodyBIKE classes at no charge.

• Team-Up for everybodyBIKE
  Team-Up for everybodyBIKE is a month-long celebration of National Bike Month in May. Teams and team members win prizes for bicycling or walking instead of driving for trips to work, school, or errands. The Whatcom Smart Trips Office provides everything you need to host this campaign.

• Wheel Options
  Fun, free, and easy. These short, prepackaged contests every spring and fall help liven up your program. Add your own prizes for extra motivational power and we'll provide matching prize money. The Whatcom Smart Trips office is one of many Wheel Options partners around the state who make the contests happen.

• Matching Prize Money for Promotional Campaigns
  The Whatcom Smart Trips Office will match the amount of money (up to a limit of $100 per contest or $50 for mid-sized employers) that worksites spend on contest prizes for their own employees. Prizes may be for statewide, local or in-house promotions.

• First Time Rider Passes
  Employees at CTR worksites, who have never ridden WTA buses, are eligible to receive a free monthly bus pass. The request must come from the Employee Transportation Coordinator. For more information, contact us.

• Community Recognition
  Advertisements thanking participating employers and Smart Trip Makers for their efforts.

• Workshops for Employee Transportation Coordinators
  The Whatcom Smart Trips Office provides regular training opportunities for Employee Transportation Coordinators, including local training meetings and WSRO (Washington State Ridesharing Organization) workshops. We pay for registration and vanpool/carpool transportation to these workshops. We also pay some lodging expenses. Large employers only.

Useful Links

• Washington State's CTR website
  It features the Employee Transportation Coordinator (ETC) Handbook and helpful information about statewide programs.

• See Resources for more useful links.

Tools for CTR Employers

• Setting Up a Worksite Program
  • Management Interview Form (PDF 7K)
  • Worksite Analysis Form (PDF 13K)

• Employee Surveys
  • CTR Survey Basics (PDF 22K)
  • Choosing Paper or Online Surveying (PDF 17K)
  • Guide to Paper Surveying (PDF 23K)
  • Guide to Online Surveying (PDF 877K)
  • Survey Schedule (PDF 14K).
  
  Fulfills a CTR requirement.

• Annual Reports
  • Online Annual Report
  • Annual Report Guide (PDF 15K)
  
  Fulfills a CTR requirement.

For help with surveying and reports, contact us.