The Benefits of a Guaranteed Ride Home

The key benefit of  a Guaranteed Ride Home (GRH) program is that it makes employees more likely to use alternative transportation.

Imagine this scenario: an employee who commutes by transit has to suddenly rush home to pick up a sick child from school. The GRH program comes through by providing quick, reliable transportation when it’s needed most.

Programs such as GRH are a form of commuter insurance. The Guaranteed Ride Home program provides employees who participate in ridesharing, take transit, or bike with up to 5 free rides home from work in case of an unexpected event. GRH is administered by Georgia Commute Options, a program managed by the Atlanta Regional Commission and funded through the Georgia Department of Transportation.

Program requirements are:

• Do you carpool, vanpool, ride transit, or bike to work?
• Are you unable to catch your normal ride home due to an unexpected illness, unscheduled overtime, sick child, etc.?
• Do you live in one of the following counties? Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry, Newton, Paulding, Rockdale, Spalding, or Walton.
  

  EXCEPTIONS:

  Guaranteed Ride Home is not available on the following dates: New Year’s Day: 1/1, Martin Luther King Holiday: 1/21, Memorial Day: 5/27, 4th of July, Labor Day: 9/2, Veteran’s Day: 11/11, Thanksgiving Day: 11/28, Day after Thanksgiving: 11/29 or Christmas Day: 12/25.

  Sign up here.

  Download a flyer for your employees.