Foresight

Test any change to your travel programme before it goes live.

Test a carbon budget, a department target, a policy change, or an incentive against your own trip history. See what it saves in cost and carbon, and what it means for travellers. Then take leadership a tested number.

What if travellers kept a share of what downgrading saves?
Carbon−274 t5.9% reduction
Cost−£174k4.3% saving
Traveller experience+2.4 pts15.4% improvement in rated experience
What if flights carried an internal carbon price of £200 a flight?
Carbon−318 t6.9% reduction
Cost−£196k4.9% saving
Traveller experience−1.0 pts6.4% decline in rated experience
What if travellers booked further ahead?
Carbon−70 t1.5% reduction
Cost−£142k3.5% saving
Traveller experience−0.3 pts1.9% decline in rated experience
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Scenario modelling

Ask what a greener policy would save. Your own trips answer.

Ask what a change would do, and RouteZero answers using your own travel history. It re-plans each past booking under the new rule and adds up the differences. You see what it would have saved in cost and carbon.

What if flights carried an internal carbon price of £200 a flight?Foresight finds the price that meets your cost and carbon targets.
What if travellers booked further ahead?Foresight shows how far ahead your people book, and what booking earlier saves.
What if we rewarded booking the cheaper, lower-emission flight?Foresight sizes the reward so the saving outweighs what it pays out.
What if each team had its own cost and carbon target?Foresight suggests a target for each team, based on how it travels.
What if each traveller had a personal carbon budget?Foresight sets each budget from the traveller's role and travel history.
What if travellers kept a share of what downgrading saves?Foresight finds the share that persuades travellers and still saves money.
What if travellers combined trips to the same place?Foresight finds the trips to one place that could have been one journey.
What if we capped the cabin on long flights?Foresight tests where to set the cap, and what each setting costs in comfort.
What if trips into Europe went by Eurostar?Foresight finds the flights a Eurostar journey could replace.
What if journeys under six hours went by rail?Foresight weighs the time each journey adds against what it saves.
What if flights carried an internal carbon price of £200 a flight?Foresight finds the price that meets your cost and carbon targets.
What if travellers booked further ahead?Foresight shows how far ahead your people book, and what booking earlier saves.
What if we rewarded booking the cheaper, lower-emission flight?Foresight sizes the reward so the saving outweighs what it pays out.
What if each team had its own cost and carbon target?Foresight suggests a target for each team, based on how it travels.
What if each traveller had a personal carbon budget?Foresight sets each budget from the traveller's role and travel history.
What if travellers kept a share of what downgrading saves?Foresight finds the share that persuades travellers and still saves money.
What if travellers combined trips to the same place?Foresight finds the trips to one place that could have been one journey.
What if we capped the cabin on long flights?Foresight tests where to set the cap, and what each setting costs in comfort.
What if trips into Europe went by Eurostar?Foresight finds the flights a Eurostar journey could replace.
What if journeys under six hours went by rail?Foresight weighs the time each journey adds against what it saves.
What if flights carried an internal carbon price of £200 a flight?Foresight finds the price that meets your cost and carbon targets.
What if travellers booked further ahead?Foresight shows how far ahead your people book, and what booking earlier saves.
What if we rewarded booking the cheaper, lower-emission flight?Foresight sizes the reward so the saving outweighs what it pays out.
What if each team had its own cost and carbon target?Foresight suggests a target for each team, based on how it travels.
What if each traveller had a personal carbon budget?Foresight sets each budget from the traveller's role and travel history.
What if travellers kept a share of what downgrading saves?Foresight finds the share that persuades travellers and still saves money.
What if travellers combined trips to the same place?Foresight finds the trips to one place that could have been one journey.
What if we capped the cabin on long flights?Foresight tests where to set the cap, and what each setting costs in comfort.
What if trips into Europe went by Eurostar?Foresight finds the flights a Eurostar journey could replace.
What if journeys under six hours went by rail?Foresight weighs the time each journey adds against what it saves.
What if flights carried an internal carbon price of £200 a flight?Foresight finds the price that meets your cost and carbon targets.
What if travellers booked further ahead?Foresight shows how far ahead your people book, and what booking earlier saves.
What if we rewarded booking the cheaper, lower-emission flight?Foresight sizes the reward so the saving outweighs what it pays out.
What if each team had its own cost and carbon target?Foresight suggests a target for each team, based on how it travels.
What if each traveller had a personal carbon budget?Foresight sets each budget from the traveller's role and travel history.
What if travellers kept a share of what downgrading saves?Foresight finds the share that persuades travellers and still saves money.
What if travellers combined trips to the same place?Foresight finds the trips to one place that could have been one journey.
What if we capped the cabin on long flights?Foresight tests where to set the cap, and what each setting costs in comfort.
What if trips into Europe went by Eurostar?Foresight finds the flights a Eurostar journey could replace.
What if journeys under six hours went by rail?Foresight weighs the time each journey adds against what it saves.
What if flights carried an internal carbon price of £200 a flight?Foresight finds the price that meets your cost and carbon targets.
What if travellers booked further ahead?Foresight shows how far ahead your people book, and what booking earlier saves.
What if we rewarded booking the cheaper, lower-emission flight?Foresight sizes the reward so the saving outweighs what it pays out.
What if each team had its own cost and carbon target?Foresight suggests a target for each team, based on how it travels.
What if each traveller had a personal carbon budget?Foresight sets each budget from the traveller's role and travel history.
What if travellers kept a share of what downgrading saves?Foresight finds the share that persuades travellers and still saves money.
What if travellers combined trips to the same place?Foresight finds the trips to one place that could have been one journey.
What if we capped the cabin on long flights?Foresight tests where to set the cap, and what each setting costs in comfort.
What if trips into Europe went by Eurostar?Foresight finds the flights a Eurostar journey could replace.
What if journeys under six hours went by rail?Foresight weighs the time each journey adds against what it saves.
Carbon−318 t6.9% reduction
Cost−£196k4.9% saving
Traveller experience−1.0 pts6.4% decline in rated experience
Simulated4,266bookings
Key insight

Leadership chose the bigger carbon cut - because the model showed it would also save the most money.

A bigger carbon cut is easier to approve when you can show what it saves. Foresight gives leadership both numbers before anything changes.

Your package

Changes overlap. RouteZero finds the combination that hits your target

Savings don't simply add up. Moving a route to rail and capping the cabin on long flights affect the same journeys, so you only see the real effect when you model them together. RouteZero tests the combinations against your own travel history. It shows which mix reaches your cost and carbon targets, and whether each change works better as guidance, policy, or an incentive.

Lowest disruption

Conservative

Nothing changes for the traveller unless a train already goes there.

Carbon CO₂e
−152 t3.2% reduction
Cost
+£9.2k0.2% increase
2 changes applied
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Travel by Eurostar rather than fly where availableGuidance
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Travel by rail where a journey under 6 hours is availableGuidance
Recommended

Balanced

Meaningful reductions, and the cost comes down with them.

Carbon CO₂e
−482 t10.4% reduction
Cost
−£334k8.3% saving
5 changes applied
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Book economy cabin or lower for flights under 6 hoursPolicy
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Book premium economy or lower for flights under 10 hoursPolicy
•
Favour journeys on lower emission aircraft where availableGuidance
•
Travel by Eurostar rather than fly where availableGuidance
•
Travel by rail where a journey under 6 hours is availableGuidance
Highest return

Ambitious

The largest cut, and the largest saving. Some trade-offs on cabin.

Carbon CO₂e
−1,076 t23.2% reduction
Cost
−£767k19.0% saving
6 changes applied
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Downgrade a cabin voluntarily for flights over 12 hoursIncentive - 25% of the saving
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Book economy cabin or lower for flights under 8 hoursPolicy
•
Book premium economy or lower for flights under 12 hoursPolicy
•
Favour journeys on lower emission aircraft where availableGuidance
•
Travel by Eurostar rather than fly where availableGuidance
•
Travel by rail where a journey under 6 hours is availableGuidance
Delivery

However you need it delivered

RouteZero fits how your organisation works. What you decide can go live to travellers, be written up for leadership to sign off, or both.

Shown to travellers as they book

With RouteZero Action, the changes you approve reach travellers as they book. They see them on a traveller site or inside the tools they already use, at the moment they make the choice.

A document your leadership can back

We draft the written version your sustainability team can present to leadership, HR, and finance, ready for internal sign-off.

Review and refresh at your own cadence

Monthly, quarterly, or annually - whatever suits your reporting cycle. We rerun the model on fresh data, track progress towards your targets, and adjust what you ask of travellers as your organisation changes.

How it works

From data to confident decisions

RouteZero Foresight uses your real travel data to test a proposed change on each individual trip. Most modelling relies on averages, and averages hide the trips where a blanket rule breaks down. ‘No flights under two hours’ sounds sensible until Edinburgh to Oslo, where the train takes more than 15 hours. Testing every trip shows exactly which journeys a change would affect and which it wouldn’t, so you know it works before you introduce it.

03 - Iterate

Refine, present, repeat

Present results to leadership, HR, and finance. Adjust thresholds, switch a change between guidance, policy, and incentive, compare packages, and keep going until you find the balance that works.

04 - Evolve

Monitor, learn, improve

The plan keeps improving after you launch it. As behaviour changes and more data comes in, thresholds tighten, unusual cases get resolved, and the plan gets sharper, with no need to start again.

01 - Baseline

Start from your real data

We start from your analysed travel data in RouteZero Data. That gives a precise baseline: where your people travel, how they travel, and the effect on cost, carbon, and the people making those journeys.

02 - Simulate

Model every trip individually

We simulate every trip under the proposed change, using real route alternatives, costs, and emissions, and the effect on the person travelling. No averages, so you see exactly what would change.

03 - Iterate

Refine, present, repeat

Present results to leadership, HR, and finance. Adjust thresholds, switch a change between guidance, policy, and incentive, compare packages, and keep going until you find the balance that works.

Assurance

A projection is only as good as the assumptions behind it.

These modelling choices decide whether a projection holds up when you present it.

Baseline

Your own historic journeys, modelled trip by trip rather than as a portfolio average.

Alternatives

Realistic alternatives a traveller could have taken on the same journey, modelled from a range of travel data sources.

Comparison

Door-to-door times, so rail, air and road are judged on the same basis.

What's counted

Only the change the scenario causes - travel that would have shifted anyway isn't credited to it.

Confidence

Reported as a range, rather than a single point estimate.

Emissions

The same methodologies as your RouteZero Data baseline.

The platform

Foresight turns your travel history into a tested plan. See where it fits.

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

Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

RouteZero takes each of your real trips and works out what the traveller would have chosen under the proposed change. We don’t use averages. Every trip is modelled individually, with the routes, costs, and emissions actually available.

That's yours to decide, and you can decide it differently for each change. The same change can be offered as guidance, set as policy so it applies by default, or come with an incentive for the traveller. Foresight models and costs each option, so you can start with guidance alone and see what the firmer versions would add before committing to any of them.

A clean baseline from RouteZero Data. If you’re already using RouteZero for data and reporting, your baseline is ready. If not, we’ll start with Data to build your foundation.

Yes. Changes can overlap. Moving a route to rail and capping the cabin on long flights can affect the same journeys, so we model them together as a package. You can compare packages side by side, such as a cautious one and an ambitious one, and see how each does on cost, carbon, and your people.

We check how every modelled change affects your people: journey times, comfort, and how hard the trip is to book. That way you can see pushback coming before it happens.

The same methodologies as RouteZero Data: Cirium for flight-level fuel burn, Green Travel Data for rail, and DEFRA factors for car and hotel. Simulations are as accurate and auditable as your baseline.

Because we model the cost of a change alongside its carbon. Incentives run as one pot across the programme. Choices that save a lot add to it, and choices that cut carbon but save little draw from it. The aim is for the pot to stay ahead, and you see the forecast before you commit to paying anyone.

Yes. RouteZero produces presentation-ready outputs showing the cost, carbon, and people impact of each package, built for conversations with leadership, HR, and finance.

Let's get started

See what a tested plan could look like for you

Bring your current travel policy and your goals. We’ll show you what a greener change could save in cost and carbon, tested on your own travel data.