Heathrow Airport’s Way2Go app programme, built by BetterPoints, helps reduce CO2 emissions from staff commuting to support the airport’s Surface Access Strategy and Net Zero Plan. In a four-month pilot, employees of Heathrow Airport Limited, Border Force and World Duty Free could download the free app and earn Way2Go Points for walking, cycling, car-sharing and…
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Three and a half years ago, when lockdowns stopped BetterPoints from encouraging people to go outside, we swapped out rewards for travelling actively with recognition for acts of kindness. Now, on this World Kindness Day, we are reintroducing it into our programmes – to recognise selfless acts that may seem small but can make a…
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Heathrow Airport is piloting a new Way2Go app, built by BetterPoints, to encourage and reward airport staff for reducing their reliance on single-occupancy car journeys. The app will help reduce CO2 emissions from surface transport and support the airport’s Surface Access Strategy and Net Zero Plan, which were published last year. From 9 May to…
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Many local authorities in England are receiving Capability Fund allocations from Active Travel England. The aim is to build a national network of experts that work with communities to co-design places that ‘are truly walkable and cyclable for everyone’. Active Travel England wants to ‘create examples at such a scale that they become unignorable’, says…
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BetterPoints is delighted to be working with Wokingham Borough Council to incentivise active travel and reduce car use, particularly around schools and high-traffic areas, and raise awareness of air quality issues. The My Journey Wokingham Challenge, which is being promoted by the My Journey Wokingham team, is part of the council’s drive to reach net…
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It is less than three years since Ansons Consulting in Scotland partnered with BetterPoints, opening up the Scottish market for us and giving them a powerful platform to change travel behaviours in the country. In that short time, BetterPoints programmes have incentivised active and sustainable travel in Arbroath, East Renfrewshire, Falkirk and Glasgow, and a…
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The global consultancy firm, Mott MacDonald, and behaviour change experts, BetterPoints, are co-designing digital tools to revolutionise household travel information-gathering. Mott MacDonald was commissioned by the UK’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office to deliver part of its Global Future Cities South East Asia Programme. They asked BetterPoints to co-design a new tool to gather travel data…
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Innovation Valley is part of a collaboration between local authorities and businesses that uses digital innovation to help make Thames Valley ‘cleaner, leaner, and greener’. BetterPoints has built the accompanying smartphone app, which encourages and rewards local people for travelling more sustainably. The new app enables residents to automatically record their active journeys (such as…
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During the second UK lockdown in 2020, we trialled a new method for encouraging people to take up online exercise classes. The result was huge cost savings compared to similar projects. We developed the research with IMIN, a physical activity connectivity platform, with their funding from Innovate UK. IMIN’s technology connects people with exercise classes. Together, we…
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BetterPoints is excited to provide the rewards engine for Rail+ Club, a powerful new loyalty app designed to encourage passengers back to the railways, which is being trialled on Thameslink and Great Northern Railway lines. From this week, passengers on selected Thameslink and Great Northern Railway lines can use the Rail+ Club app to track their…
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The University of Sussex has become the latest higher education institution to use BetterPoints technology to reward and motivate their students and staff for active and sustainable travel. The EcoGo challenge will work in parallel with other wellbeing and sustainability initiatives to make the University a more environmentally friendly place to work and study. Staff…
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Last week we launched a new programme funded through the Department for Transport’s new ‘Capability Fund’. The BetterPoints York programme, in partnership with City of York Council (CYC), incentivises workers and residents in York to use active and sustainable modes of transport. Following our success with active travel in Leicestershire (do check out the video…
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We have put together two case studies for you that show how BetterPoints behaviour change programmes are more than paying for themselves, delivering high value and real change for local authorities in both public health and active/sustainable travel.
