Before booking your trip - have you considered alternatives?
Can you for example:
- attend a digital meeting?
- follow a live event (streaming) or watch it digitally afterwards, if it is available?
The above options contribute to reducing the amount of travel for OsloMet.
This checklist is also useful when inviting guests, examiners, external researchers and lecturers who needs to travel to get to their assignment at OsloMet.
Is it a necessary journey?
E-mail, phone, and digital meetings through Teams and Zooms makes it easy to collaborate without traveling. Information and guidance for digital teaching.
Are there good alternatives to flying?
If the price of trains/buses is approximately equal to the flight price, environmentally friendly transport is recommended.
Check if you have the opportunity to merge several short journeys?
Can you merge partner collaboration with several people in the same region? For example, it is easier to get around by train if you can merge several meetings on the same journey on the European continent. Are you and your partners still going to the same seminar and can take the meetings there? Do you have research projects that can have a mix of physical travel and digital seminars?
Can you take the train getting there and fly on the return?
If OsloMet is to contribute to global sustainability goals, all small and large contributions count, and then taking the train even one way will almost half the travel emissions.
Can sensors/opponents/guest researchers avoid flying to meet at OsloMet?
Consider whether digital conference can replace the journey for one or more persons? Or at least for the one with the longest route. Avoid setting up internal meetings/seminars to locations you have to fly.
Prioritize public transport for local travels
Using public transport is the least expensive and most green form of travelling. If no public transport is available, feel free to book an electric car from OsloMet. We have 2 comfortable electric cars that are service vehicles available that are better for the environment and easier for you as you don't have to submit an expense report. If taxi is the only option, ask for an electric car or hybrid when booking.
Travel together
When travelling where hiring a car is the only option, plan to drive together to save emissions.