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Sustainable journey sharing platform

A journey sharing platform for local authorities and employers.

BetterCommute helps local authorities, employers, hospitals, universities and business parks create managed travel hubs that connect people travelling similar routes.

Support shared commuting, reduce solo car journeys and encourage lower-impact travel across workplaces, campuses, neighbourhoods and events.

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Find your community.

Create travel hubs. Set up managed hubs for workplaces, campuses, hospitals, business parks, neighbourhoods and local schemes.

Share better journeys.

Help people connect safely, plan shared trips and make commuting by car share, walking, cycling or public transport easier to organise.

Track your impact.

Measure participation, travel behaviour and lower-carbon journeys, with useful data to support Scope 3 emissions reporting.

Community travel hubs

Bring people together around shared destinations.

BetterCommute is built around hubs: managed spaces for people travelling to the same workplace, campus, business park, event or local area. Hubs can be public, private or invite-only, giving organisations the flexibility to support different travel schemes and communities.

Create or find a hub

Set up a hub for an organisation, location, neighbourhood or campaign.

Join the right community

Users can request access, join approved hubs, and add their regular journeys.

Find travel matches

BetterCommute helps people find others travelling nearby, along similar routes or to the same destination.

Travel better together

Members connect, agree journey details and make shared travel part of their routine.

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For local authorities and employers

A practical platform for sustainable travel behaviour change.

BetterCommute gives transport, sustainability, estates and workplace teams a simple way to launch and manage journey sharing schemes. Use it to support car sharing, active travel, workplace travel plans, business park initiatives and local campaigns.

  • Create managed travel hubs for workplaces, campuses and communities

  • Support car sharing, walking, cycling and shared commuting

  • Reduce pressure on parking and single-occupancy car journeys

  • Help people find safer, more social ways to travel

  • Track usage, engagement and travel behaviour over time

  • Configure the platform around your scheme, geography and goals

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Platform features

Everything you need to launch a local journey sharing scheme.

BetterCommute can be configured around your organisation, audience and travel goals. Whether you are supporting a single employer, a hospital site, a university campus, a business park or a wider authority-led scheme, the platform gives users a simple way to find relevant travel matches.

  • Managed hubs

    Create hubs for specific workplaces, campuses, business parks, neighbourhoods or campaigns.

  • User matching

    Help people find others travelling similar routes, nearby or to the same destination.

  • Admin tools

    Manage hubs, users, permissions and local scheme settings.

  • Reporting

    Track participation, journey activity and engagement across your travel scheme.

  • Configurable setup

    Adapt branding, content, locations and workflows to fit local needs.

  • Ongoing support

    Hosting, maintenance, security updates and dedicated support included as part of your annual platform package.

Why BetterCommute

Help more people choose better ways to travel.

Changing commuting behaviour is hard. BetterCommute gives organisations a practical tool to make shared and lower-impact travel easier to discover, easier to organise and easier to measure.

Reduce solo car journeys

Encourage lift sharing and shared commuting to reduce avoidable single-occupancy trips.

Support active travel

Make it easier for people to find walking and cycling companions for regular journeys.

Improve local insight

Understand travel demand, user behaviour and barriers to participation.

Build stronger communities

Connect people around shared workplaces, campuses, neighbourhoods and destinations.

Built from real public sector experience

A tested foundation for local travel schemes.

BetterCommute builds on our experience designing, developing and supporting journey sharing services in real local authority contexts. The platform is designed for organisations that need more than a simple public car-share directory: managed hubs, support, reporting, configuration and long-term improvement.

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Packages

Simple pricing for launching and running BetterCommute.

Launch your own configured BetterCommute scheme with a one-off implementation fee, alongside an annual platform package to keep it live, supported and maintained.

Additional customisation is optional and scoped separately around your workflows, integrations, reporting and scheme-specific needs.

Implementation

One-off setup

Setup, configuration, branding, onboarding and launch support to get your scheme live.

£6,800 + VAT

Platform package

Required annual package

Platform licence, hosting, maintenance, security updates, support, SLA and access to relevant platform improvements.

£1,000/month + VAT

Billed annually

Customisation

Optional, scoped separately

Additional development for local workflows, integrations, reporting, rewards, surveys or scheme-specific requirements.

Custom pricing

Based on requirements

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Trusted by 130+ local authorities and employers

Get in touch

Help your employees, colleagues, or community groups to better commute together. Get in touch to request a demo.

Ready to launch a better way to commute?

Speak to us about creating a managed journey sharing platform for your local authority, workplace, campus, business park or community scheme.

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