Data & Reporting

Find the travel savings you didn’t know you had.

Your travel data is spread across booking tools, expenses, cards, and car hire, and much of it is patchy or wrong. RouteZero cleans and joins it into one baseline for cost and carbon. You see where the money and emissions go, and which changes would cut both. Every figure traces back to the trip behind it.

One record of your travel
Sources12systems joined
Bookings21,559over 24 months
Spend£11.4Mtraced to the trip
Emissions12,731tCO₂etraced to the trip
Business-class flights4% of bookings, 44% of emissions
Economy flights21% of bookings, 36% of emissions
Car hire10% of bookings, 2% of emissions
Rail21% of bookings, 1% of emissions
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Insights

A total is just the start. See where your spend and emissions go.

Once your data is reliable, you can see everything from where your spend and emissions concentrate to how well your guidance is followed.

COMPLIANCE OVERVIEW
32%compliance
Only 32% of trips followed your travel guidance
Excess emissions
462 tCO₂e above guidance
+24%
Excess cost
£380k above guidance
+12%
Trips analysed
across all travel modes
3,408
Compliance by guidance area
Where non-compliance costs you the most
GUIDANCECOMPLIANCETRIPS
Rail preferred under 3hrs
28%
342
Economy class under 6hrs
45%
518
Advance booking (14+ days)
22%
1,205
EV preferred for car hire
51%
186
Direct flights preferred
68%
890
Video call for <1 day trips
35%
267
Biggest opportunity: advance booking
Only 22% of trips are booked 14+ days in advance, affecting 1,205 trips. Improving to 50% could save ~£180k and reduce emissions by 3.2%.

See where guidance isn't taken up

See which guidance goes unfollowed, what that costs in extra spend and carbon, and where a targeted change would help most.

Emissions breakdown
tCO₂e by travel type
848tCO₂e
Business flight
Economy flight
Hotel
Rail
Other

Focus on what makes the biggest difference

See which categories drive your spend and carbon, by travel type, office, or route. Then put your effort where it counts.

Global route map
Routes colour-coded by emissions intensity
Low
Medium
High

Target the routes that cost and emit the most

Find the routes with the most spend and emissions, and target changes where they’ll do the most: rail alternatives, a cap on cabin class, or guidance to meet online first.

Emissions over time
tCO₂e by booking type (last 12 months)
Business flight
Economy flight
Rail

Prove your strategy is working

Spot seasonal patterns, measure the effect of each change you make, and show stakeholders the trend over time as well as where you are today.

Destination emissions
tCO₂e by destination country
Low
High

See where in the world your carbon goes

See which destinations account for the most carbon, so your travel guidance is based on real patterns rather than guesswork.

Spend breakdown
Total spend by booking type
£1.4Mtotal spend
Business flight
Economy flight
Hotel
Rail

See where your travel budget really goes

Spot the booking types that take an outsized share of spend, and build the business case for switching to cheaper options.

Journey duration
Bookings by one-way travel time
Economy
Business
Premium
Rail

Spot the flights rail can replace

Find the journeys where rail is a realistic option. Short flights under two hours are often the easiest wins: lower cost, lower carbon, and little extra travel time.

Top routes
tCO₂e by route (top 6)

Fix a few routes, shift most of the total

See exactly which routes drive the most carbon and cost. A handful of routes often make up most of the total. Start with those, and every change you make goes further.

These are just a sample. Dashboards and reports are tailored to the needs of your organisation.
Data quality

Every booking checked. Every figure verified.

Every booking goes through automated, AI-assisted, and manual checks before it reaches a report. We look for duplicates, refunds logged as trips, flights that never flew, and emission factors applied wrongly. Every saving, target, and year-on-year comparison is measured against your baseline. If the baseline has to be restated, so do all of them.

ROUTEZERO DATABooking Data Audit
21,559 bookings checked across 24 months
Provider reported10,521 tCO₂e
→
RouteZero measured12,731 tCO₂e
Provider total off by 21%
CHECKMONTHJOURNEYTYPEPROVIDERROUTEZERO
Radiative forcing not applied
Mar 2025LHR → JFKFlight381 kg648 kg
Cabin class not applied
Jan 2025LHR → SINFlight1,661 kg3,689 kg
Refund logged as a trip
Nov 2024LHR → CDGFlight142 kgRemoved
Fuel production not counted
Feb 2025LHR → DXBFlight1,867 kg2,260 kg
Verified
Jan 2025ZRH → EDIFlight172 kg172 kg
Duplicate across two sources
Jun 2024MAN → AMSFlight168 kgRemoved
Emissions understated
Sep 2024n/aHotel8 kg31 kg
Modelled on the aircraft's fuel burn
Jan 2025LHR → SINFlight1,272 kg890 kg
Last year's emission factors
Feb 2025LHR → MADFlight228 kg157 kg
Outside the reporting period
Jul 2023BHX → DUBFlight94 kgRemoved
Methodology

Every booking measured by the most accurate method its data supports

When we know which flight someone took, we can work out the emissions from the fuel that aircraft burned. When all we have is a card payment, we can't be that precise. The booking still gets the closest calculation its details allow, instead of being dropped or lumped in with an average. Every figure is labelled with how it was worked out, so you can check each number behind the total, as well as the total itself.

Activity based 67%

UK Government conversion factors

Flight fuel based 22%

Fuel-burn modelling for flights

Spend based 11%

Derived from your own travel spend

Rail fuel based 0.3%

Traction energy and loadings, per rail journey

How it works

From raw data to reliable cost and carbon figures, automatically

RouteZero collects your data, cleans it, checks it, fills the gaps, and analyses it. You get figures that are ready to use, with no manual work for your team.

01

Ingest

We bring together data from every source and put it into one standard format, however it arrived: booking tools, expense systems, card transactions, and car hire.

Rows read30,467Sources12
02

Clean

We match up duplicates, refunds, and exchanges, so your totals don’t include bookings that never flew or spend that wasn’t travel. Every fix traces back to its source row.

Duplicates consolidated1,821Fee-only records reconciled617Non-travel spend removed4,517Out-of-period rows excluded213
03

Audit

Quality checks look for errors before any figure reaches a report. A wrong number is caught here, before it becomes the baseline you report against.

Parsing consistencyRouting completenessEmissions cross-validationBooking uniquenessPersonal data removed
04

Enrich

We fill in missing journey details from what the data does include. Flight numbers are matched to published schedules, and distances follow the real route. Each journey then gets the most accurate emissions method its data supports.

Values derived354,621Journey legs21,967Derivation methods21
05

Analyse

We break your travel down by mode, route, office, and reporting period. You see where your biggest cuts and savings are.

Bookings analysed21,559Months24
Raw data
Assurance

What you'll want to know before you present these numbers.

Where the figures come from, what they include, and what each one can be traced back to.

Reporting standard

GHG Protocol Scope 3, Category 6.

Emissions factors

Recognised published sets, matched to the year of travel rather than the latest available.

Coverage

Every booking counted, using the best method its data supports, in the same way every time.

What's counted

For figures calculated from activity: all greenhouse gases, including the emissions from producing the fuel (well-to-tank).

Flights

Flights we calculate include radiative forcing - the extra warming caused at altitude.

Distances

The route travelled, rather than a straight line between origin and destination.

Audit trail

Every figure records the method behind it, and the source cell or stated assumption each input came from.

Methodology

A full methodology document accompanies every report.

The platform

Data turns scattered exports into a baseline you build once. Here's what comes next.

Each step builds on the last. Start wherever makes sense, and grow when you’re ready.

Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. Ask for a free travel data analysis. Send us one month of your travel data, and we’ll show you where your costs and emissions come from, which trips drive them, and which changes could cut both. There’s no charge, and no obligation after.

Carbon-accounting platforms tell you what your emissions were. RouteZero helps you cut them, along with cost. The audited baseline is where that starts. Every figure traces back to the trips behind it, so you can model changes on real journeys and show travellers lower-carbon options as they book. Most of the organisations we work with already had dashboards and budgets. What they lacked was a way to turn the numbers into changes to the trips behind them.

Any format your booking provider supplies, including CSV, Excel, and PDF reports. RouteZero reads them for you. If a format changes between requests, which happens often, we adapt automatically.

An initial baseline is typically ready within a few weeks, depending on how complex your data is. Ongoing reports come faster once we’ve learned how your data is laid out. We deal with your providers directly, so you’re not waiting on the back-and-forth.

For each journey, we use the most accurate recognised method its data supports: Cirium for flight-level fuel burn, Green Travel Data for rail, and DEFRA conversion factors (the UK Government's published set) for car and hotel. Where the data allows, we also use specialist sources such as Google Emissions APIs. Each journey's audit trail records which method was used, matched to your reporting context.

RouteZero brings together data from booking provider reports, expense systems, car hire providers, and hotel bookings into one view. Where datasets overlap, duplicates are removed automatically.

Reports are aligned with the GHG Protocol, which classifies business travel as Scope 3 Category 6, and each includes a full methodology document covering emission factors, distance calculations, data reconciliation, sensitivity analysis, and known limitations. If your organisation has specific reporting requirements, we can work with you to tailor the output to match.

Every booking goes through automated checks: spotting duplicates, verifying mileage, cross-checking emissions, finding gaps in the data, checking every period is covered, and more. We flag and fix issues before figures are finalised, and every fix can be traced back to its source.

Your data is stored in the UK, on Microsoft 365, which is certified to ISO 27001 and has SOC 2 reports. It’s processed on company devices in the UK. After we remove or replace names and other identifying details, AI-assisted checks use Anthropic’s Claude models. Anthropic stores data in the US. Our website runs on Google Cloud Platform and holds none of your data.

The primary copy is stored in the UK, which isn’t part of the EU. The EU has an adequacy decision for the UK, which recognises UK data protection as equivalent to its own. AI-assisted processing uses Anthropic, which stores data in the US, under the safeguards in Anthropic’s Data Processing Addendum.

Yes. Your data is encrypted at rest with AES-256, and in transit with TLS. Every company device has full-disk encryption.

Yes. Every company device is encrypted, kept up to date automatically, and protected by antivirus software. Access to the stored copy of your data needs two-factor authentication, and only RouteZero staff can reach it. We check the software we depend on for updates, including security fixes, every week.

Yes. Every change follows a documented process, and nothing is released until a person has reviewed it and it has passed automated checks. Identifiable customer data is never stored in our code.

We use Anthropic’s Claude models under Anthropic’s commercial terms. Anthropic doesn’t train its models on data under those terms, and deletes session data after 30 days. Before Claude sees your data, we remove or replace names and other identifying details, and a member of our team decides what it can see.

Microsoft stores your data, and Anthropic provides the AI that helps us check it. You can see what each one does, and where it stores data, in our sub-processor list. We can share more detail during your security review.

For the length of our agreement. When it ends, you can retrieve your data for 30 days, and we delete it within 90 days, or sooner if you ask. We may keep an anonymised copy to improve our methodology.

Yes. Your data is stored redundantly, so a hardware failure doesn’t lose it, and deleted files can be restored for up to 90 days. Your data itself lives in our cloud storage, so a lost device doesn’t lose it. Every report can be recreated from your data and our version-controlled software.

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See what RouteZero could find in your data

Send us a month of your travel data and we’ll show you where your costs and emissions come from, and which changes could cut both. The analysis is free, and we’ll tell you honestly whether we can help.