CommuteSMART Seacoast is a Transportation Management Association (TMA) that works with employers to ease commuting challenges and reduce traffic congestion and air pollution. We promote carpooling/vanpooling, transit, bus, biking or walking to work, and teleworking.

Membership is free and open to any employer in the greater Seacoast region of New Hampshire. Download a membership application and join today to enhance your reputation as an environmentally and worker friendly employer!

THE PERKS

Enjoy the cost savings

• Your employees are not stuck in traffic and stressed out. Instead they are at work and improving your bottom line.
• Reduced payroll taxes and commuting costs put money in your employees’ pockets.
• Increased productivity (which translates into real cost savings)
• IRS regulations allow you to reduce your payroll expenses and allow your employees to use pre-tax dollars to purchase transit or vanpool fare media.

Enjoy the benefits

• Decreased absenteeism
• Improved employee morale and well-being
• Improved employee retention
• Enhanced recruitment with a larger applicant pool (people like having commuting options)
• Increased environmental stewardship by reducing traffic congestion and air pollution
• Improved physical health from bicycling or walking

CommuteSMART Seacoast’s free services:

• Confidential, no obligation online carpool and vanpool matching service for employees
• On-site promotional events and materials about carpooling, bicycling/walking, transit, and teleworking
• Personal commute planning – face-to-face, phone or email consultation to help an employee find commute options
• Surveying and analyzing employee transportation patterns and needs
• Emergency Ride Home Program – registered commuters are eligible to receive reimbursement for up to 6 taxi or Uber rides a year if an emergency occurs during work or a carpool driver has an emergency
• Quarterly e-newsletter
• Regional commuter events and contests (e.g. “B2B”, “Conquer the Cold”)
• Workshops (e.g. bike safety, bike maintenance)
• Advocating on regional transportation issues
• Roundtables on topics of common concern to members