Travel Smart, a global campaign coordinated by T&E, encourages companies to reduce the emissions associated with their business travel. To better understand their employees’ behavior, the campaign commissioned a survey from Corporate Mobilities and OpinionWay in November 2024, on the opinions of French business travellers regarding their use of the train and their company’s policies as a quick and efficient way to reduce emissions from business flights.
The results, gathered from a representative sample of 510 respondents, show very clear trends in favor of train use over other means of transport:
- 81% consider the train as a more productive way to travel, compared to other modes of transport
- Half report that their companies are implementing the government’s recommendation to use the train by default for journeys up to 4 hours
- A majority believe their companies should adopt rail travel as the mode of transport for journeys lasting up to 8 hours
Read the French version.