The City of Westminster, measured.
A year of measurable progress toward cleaner, smarter, more rewarding commutes for City employees, and the strongest year yet in a three-year partnership with Commutrics.
A program that compounds.
Year three of partnership, and the strongest year yet.
The City of Westminster completed its third year of partnership with Commutrics in 2025. The program reached 170 enrolled employees, of whom 131 actively logged trips, the cohort whose before-versus-during behavior is compared throughout this study. Year over year, every metric improved, by margins that signal a maturing program where habits, infrastructure, and incentives now reinforce one another.
Across the year, employees logged more than 38,900 commute trips, and more than a third of them were by an alternative to driving alone: 13.7% by telecommuting, 6.6% by transit, and the rest by carpool, bike, and foot. The City's platform investment returned $69,432 in commuter cost savings, eliminated 71,038 kg of CO₂, and avoided more than 311,000 vehicle miles.
The 2025 program delivered measurable wins on every objective set out in the original 2023 pilot: lower emissions, reduced parking demand, healthier employees, and qualified use of Colorado's HB22-1026 tax credit. With trip volume up 65% and CO₂ savings more than doubled, it has graduated from pilot success to a mature, scalable City service.
How the program works.
Commutrics turns the daily commute into measurable sustainability outcomes: personalized commute planning, gamified incentives, automated benefit distribution, and real-time analytics in a single experience for the employee, and a single dashboard for the City.
- Client
- City of WestminsterColorado
- Solution provider
- Commutrics
- Program launched
- July 20236-month pilot
- Reporting period
- Jan 1 – Dec 31, 2025Program year three
- Enrolled employees
- 170
- Active trip loggers
- 131
- Monthly reward cap
- $30 per employee
- Tax credit eligibility
- Colorado HB22-1026
Log trips, earn points
Employees record commute modes via web, mobile, or automatic trip detection.
Convert points to rewards
Points convert automatically to monthly cash benefits, capped per employee at $30 a month.
Win weekly drawings
Log two or more commute trips in a week to enter a $5 drawing; log three or more office days for a second $5 drawing.
Compete in seasonal promotions
Themed challenges in March, April, June, and October layer bonus points and rewards on top of the base structure.
Benefits distribute automatically
No manual HR processing. Commutrics handles disbursement based on logged trips.
Insights drive optimization
Real-time dashboards track participation, mode share, emissions, and cost savings for the City.
How the City rewards the right behavior.
Higher-impact modes earn more. The 2025 structure weights walking, biking, transit, and Park & Ride well above driving alone, and points convert to cash automatically.
Four $10 monthly prizes
Celebrating top performers across different commute behaviors, every month.
2025 seasonal challenge calendar
Themed promotions ran in March, April, June, and October, the months where the City pushed for behavior change with bonus points and rewards.
Love Your Commute
Download the Commutrics app and log 10 trips for a $5 bonus. Designed to drive mobile-app adoption early in the year.
Onboarding pushEarth Month
Double points on all alternative-mode trips and EV driving for the entire month, plus double weekly and monthly rewards.
Sustainability anchorBike to Work Month
Triple points on biking with a monthly cap of $50 per employee, and double the prize for most miles biked.
Highest-payout monthGreen-Tober
Double points on all alternative-mode trips and EV driving, plus double weekly and monthly rewards.
Closing-quarter sprint2024 → 2025: every metric moved up and to the right.
Trip volume grew 65%, alternative-mode trips grew 70%, and CO₂ savings more than doubled, all while the program ran on a leaner incentive structure than the year before.
The same story, per employee
Growth wasn't only in totals. Spread across the 131 active commuters, the program's impact per person is just as striking.
38,907 trips across 131 active commuters, roughly 1.2 logged trips per workday and close to the practical ceiling for daily-trip programs.
$69,432 in commute cost savings across 131 active commuters: fuel, fares, parking, and vehicle wear each employee would otherwise have paid.
71,038 kg across 131 active commuters, more than double 2024's total on a leaner incentive structure.
The 2025 program ran on lower per-trip point values than 2024: drive-alone dropped from 30 to 20 points a day, transit from 100 to 80, walking and biking from 150 to 130, and the monthly reward cap fell from $35 to $30. Engagement and impact grew dramatically anyway.
This is the hallmark of a maturing TDM program: early adopters deepened their habits, new joiners ramped up faster, and the program's culture, not just its payouts, now does the work.
How Westminster gets to work.
The 2025 commute footprint, by trip and by mile. Across 38,907 logged trips, alternative modes carried more than a third, and their share climbed through the summer to a July peak as participation grew month after month.
2025 mode share
How the year's logged commute trips split by mode, yearly average across the 131 active trip-loggers. Telecommuting and transit lead the alternatives, with carpooling, biking, and walking behind them.
Share of logged trips. 170 employees were enrolled overall; 131 actively logged trips in 2025. Carpool combines all carpool trip types.
Alternative-mode share of trips by month, 2025
Above the 29.4% initial baseline every month, rising to a 39.3% peak in July on the heels of Bike to Work Month. Active commuters tracked each month grew from 75 in January to 109 in December.
Alternative modes include bike, walk, transit, carpool, telecommute, and EV. "n" is the number of commuters tracked that month.
View monthly values
| Month | Alternative-mode trips | Drive-alone trips | Commuters tracked |
|---|---|---|---|
| Initial baseline | 29.4% | 70.6% | 179 |
| Jan | 31.6% | 68.4% | 75 |
| Feb | 34.2% | 65.8% | 77 |
| Mar | 35.3% | 64.7% | 85 |
| Apr | 34.0% | 66.0% | 91 |
| May | 35.1% | 64.9% | 90 |
| Jun | 38.8% | 61.2% | 93 |
| Jul | 39.3% | 60.7% | 90 |
| Aug | 37.6% | 62.4% | 94 |
| Sep | 35.3% | 64.7% | 98 |
| Oct | 36.7% | 63.3% | 107 |
| Nov | 35.5% | 64.5% | 107 |
| Dec | 34.5% | 65.5% | 109 |
Average distance by transportation mode, 2025
Drive and Transit + Drive trips cover the longest distances, exactly the trips with the greatest emissions to displace when shifted to alternative modes.
Annual 2025 averages across all logged trips of each type. The commuter count is the number of employees who logged at least one trip of that type during the year; most employees appear in several rows, so these figures describe trips, not people.
The City's return on participation.
Lower emissions, fewer parking spaces to supply, and a program that pays for itself many times over.
Parking-space days saved by month, 2025
Steady growth from January through the summer, with peaks in July and October aligning with Bike to Work Month and Green-Tober.
Annual total: 6,650 parking-space days. A parking-space day is one employee's workday in which no parking space was needed because of an alternative-mode or telecommute day.
View monthly values
| Month | Parking-space days saved |
|---|---|
| Jan | 440 |
| Feb | 410 |
| Mar | 475 |
| Apr | 490 |
| May | 525 |
| Jun | 570 |
| Jul | 660 |
| Aug | 580 |
| Sep | 630 |
| Oct | 685 |
| Nov | 580 |
| Dec | 605 |
| 2025 total | 6,650 |
The $69,432 figure is the per-trip commute cost savings calculated by the Commutrics platform across all 13,916 alternative-mode trips logged in 2025, based on each trip's distance, mode, and the cost differential between driving alone and the alternative used. It reflects out-of-pocket savings on fuel, transit fares, parking, and vehicle wear that the active commuter cohort would otherwise have absorbed individually.
Why the results are measurable.
Most commute programs hand out a transit pass or a parking subsidy and report on how many were issued. This one records behavior, rewards every mode, measures the outcome, and feeds what it learns into the next year's design, which is why the figures on this page exist at all.
Every mode counts, not just transit
A transit pass rewards one behavior. Here, points cover telecommuting, carpooling, biking, walking, EV driving, and Park & Ride, so employees who can't take a bus still have a way to earn, and the City captures every kind of avoided trip.
Behavior is logged, not estimated
Traditional programs report on an annual survey or on how many passes went out. This program recorded every trip, many of them detected automatically, so mode share, CO₂, miles, parking days, and savings are measured monthly rather than guessed once a year. The same trip log substantiates the City's HB22-1026 tax-credit claim.
Incentives follow outcomes
A flat subsidy pays the same whether or not anyone changes how they commute. Here rewards are earned per logged trip and weighted by mode, and every point value and cap is a dial. The City turned those dials down in 2025 and participation still grew, something a fixed benefit can't do.
Data informs the next year's design
Every month's dashboard and every year's report feed the next cycle. The 2025 structure was tuned from 2024's data: point values, the monthly cap, and which months carry a challenge. The 2026 recommendations come straight from the 2025 trip log and survey, from closing the challenge-awareness gap to piloting carpool matching with the employees who asked for it. Each year starts from evidence rather than a guess, so behavior change compounds.
The ten commuters who set the pace.
Westminster's top ten commuters collectively logged more than 4,950 alternative-mode trips and earned over 285,000 community points in 2025, with individual savings running past $4,000 for the year.
An end-of-year recognition event for the top ten, alongside category awards for biggest improver, longest car-free streak, and most consistent transit user, can be one of the most efficient drivers of next year's enrollment.
What Westminster employees are saying.
November 2025 feedback survey · 73 respondents: 68 active Commutrics users, 3 non-enrolled employees, and 2 partial responses.
What drives participation
Why employees said they joined the program. Multi-select, 66 enrolled respondents.
Most engaging features
Which Commutrics features keep employees coming back. Multi-select.
Common themes
Synthesized from 51 open-text responses describing how the program influenced commuting habits.
Awareness of choices and impact
The most common theme by far. Even respondents whose mode mix didn't change reported becoming more conscious of their commute footprint and the alternatives available.
Biking and carpooling stood out
Many participants reported biking more, particularly during the June Bike Month challenge. Carpooling and combining trips also came up repeatedly.
Distance, transit gaps, kids' schedules
Distance from work, transit not serving home locations, childcare drop-off, varying schedules, and first-mile/last-mile problems were the things keeping participants from going further.
In their own words
Direct quotes from the November 2025 feedback survey, lightly edited for length.
It has encouraged me to use my bike way more frequently, and to engage more in bike-to-work days and bike/green month challenges. This has also led to more recreational biking with my family. Great benefit!
My awareness increased being informed on the differences each type of commute made. That was motivating to carpool more and explore other options.
The program is a regular reminder that alternatives for commuting are available. I love that I can collect points for driving an EV. I enjoyed seeing colleagues compete or use different resources to commute.
The program has influenced me to be more conscious of my commuting habits. I like the challenges and seeing my ranking compared to other coworkers.
It really helped motivate me to participate in helping the environment with changing how I commute to work. It is amazing how it shows how much you are contributing.
The program did incentivize me to ride my bike more. I had never ridden my bike to work before this program, and really enjoyed the challenge. I loved finding new trails and routes to work as I grew more connected to the community.
EcoPass and Commutrics are complements, not substitutes.
Asked which transportation program they would mostly use, 65% of respondents chose the bundle of an EcoPass for transit plus Commutrics incentives for every other mode, well ahead of either program on its own.
Recommendations for 2026.
Where to invest next, prioritized by expected impact.
Close the challenge-awareness gap
15% of enrolled respondents didn't know the April, June, and October challenges were happening. Of those who did, 29% participated more because of them, making this the single highest-leverage communications fix for 2026.
Advocate for first-mile / last-mile infrastructure
Respondents repeatedly cited transit access and bike infrastructure as their top blockers: missing bus routes near homes and the need for safer cycling. Partner with RTD and regional planners on shared mobility at Park-and-Ride locations and protected bike corridors to City Hall.
Position EcoPass and Commutrics as a bundle
65% of respondents preferred the combined model over either program alone. Co-market the two as a single transportation benefit.
Test carpool and vanpool matching cautiously
Only 18% of respondents expressed interest in matching, and 58% were explicitly not interested. Pilot the feature with the interested subset before a broad rollout.
Publish an annual city-wide recap
Respondents suggested an annual update to all City employees showcasing winners, highlights, and aggregate impact. It doubles as recruiting and retention content for the City brand.
If the City closes the challenge-awareness gap and keeps growing participation at the 2024 → 2025 rate, Commutrics projects 2026 alternative-mode trips could grow another 20–30% over 2025, with corresponding gains in CO₂ savings and parking demand, without incremental incentive spend.
"The program is a regular reminder that alternatives for commuting are available, and seeing the impact in real numbers is what keeps me coming back."Westminster employee · November 2025 feedback survey
More than double 2024's total, on a leaner incentive structure.
Equivalent to a 29.7% reduction in vehicle miles travelled for the active commuter cohort.
More than ten times the program's net cost after the Colorado HB22-1026 tax credit.
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