Turn your commute into cold, hard cash. There are many Commuter Benefits to using alternative modes of transportation – even one day per week. iCommute offers incentives to commuters and so do some companies, including:
Find the right person to share your ride. RideMatcher is a personalized, online ride-matching program that will connect you with other commuters who live and work where you do for carpooling, vanpooling or biking to work. RideMatcher makes it easy to begin a better commute.
Everyone into the Pool! Start a vanpool through your employer or create one of your own. You or your employer can lease a vehicle through one of iCommute’s contracted vanpool vendors and receive up to $400 per month to help offset the cost of the lease. On average, vanpool participants cut their commute costs by many hundreds of dollars per year.
Never Worry that You Can’t Get Home. The Guaranteed Ride Home (GRH) program provides a taxi or rental car up to three times per year so you can get home in an emergency for just a $3 co-pay. If you carpool, vanpool, bike to work, or ride the COASTER at least three times a week, just log your trips using the TripTracker tool and you’ll be covered.
Get a Break from Uncle Sam. Employers are allowed to offer payroll tax savings for transportation assistance up to $230 a month per employee for transit passes or vanpool vouchers. For more information visit “Employer's Tax Guide to Fringe Benefits IRS code 132(f)”
Many employers in the San Diego region offer attractive benefits and incentives to employees who use alternative modes of transportation to work one or more days per week. Ask your employer if they have a commuter benefit program or suggest that they contact us to start one today at icommute@sandag.org.