Passenger transport
A journey labelled with Good Environmental Choice has a limited climate impact, has low emissions that are harmful to health and the environment, and contributes to greater consideration for the environment and social values in the production of vehicles and their fuels. The label works to develop sustainable transport.
Can your company offer journeys with low climate impact and low emissions that are harmful to health and the environment? Then the journeys may also be able to meet the environmental requirements that Good Environmental Choice sets for passenger transport. Labelling your transport gives you support in your environmental work and can make it easier to highlight and communicate the environmental benefits you bring.
Some of our environmental requirements for seven different modes of transport
Bike sharing: bicycle production, service and repair, increased average use per bicycle, management of used components, renewable and ecolabelled electricity, and requirements for service vehicles.
Car sharing: climate impact, emission class, fuel, renewable and ecolabelled electricity, cleaning of vehicles, having several users per car per month, availability, and also offering vehicles smaller than cars.
Taxi: ownership of the vehicles, electric, hydrogen or biogas vehicles, fuel requirements, and cleaning.
Coach: emission class, climate impact, fuel requirements, requirements for cleaning and ecolabelled products on board.
Bus: vehicle production, emission class, climate impact, fuel, requirements for cleaning and ecolabelled products on board.
Rail traffic: vehicle production, fuel, energy use, requirements for cleaning and ecolabelled products onboard, plus requirements concerning catering on board.
Ship: potential batteries for electric power, fuel, increasing proportion of renewable fuel, ship-to-shore electricity connection, energy use, emissions of sulphur and nitrogen oxides, cleaning, and ecolabelled products on board, plus requirements concerning catering on board.
Ecolabel your personal transport
Below are the documents needed to submit the application. When putting together an application, it is easiest to read the criteria document together with the application document for the relevant mode of transport and Appendix A, for a clearer understanding of how each requirement is verified in the application process and during annual checks.
If a new licence needs to come into force from a certain date, remember to submit the application well ahead of time. The processing time for applications depends on how many modes of transport and fuels are included in the application. It is important that all the requested verifications are attached to the application, that any calculations can be followed and that the responses in the application provide the required information. The fewer supplementary documents that need to be chased, the faster the application can be processed.
Questions, please contact us
Do you have any questions about ecolabelled passenger transport or are you interested in labelling your transport? Don’t hesitate to contact us at Good Environmental Choice. Our contact details are listed below.
Criteria and licence terms
- Criteria Passenger TransportPDF, 744 KB
- Licence Terms Passenger TransportsPDF, 265 KB
Apply to become a licence holder
Ready to become a licence holder? This is the application process step by step. If you have questions regarding what an application would mean for you, please contact us.
Communicate Good Environmental Choice
As a licence holder, you can communicate Good Environmental Choice on products and services but also in your own communication. Read how the logo can be used and how Good Environmental Choice should be expressed in text or in other media. Explain the benefits of the eco label to your customers and partners.
Our licence holders share their experience
Sustainability is, and has always been, one of our most important issues and we are actively working to offer trips with low climate impact, to guarantee low emissions that are harmful to health and the environment, and to ensure that our choice of vehicles and fuels takes into account environmental and social values. Good Environmental Choice is an important step in the development of sustainable transport.
Zakaria Abna AissaBusiness Area Director, Vy Buss
The Good Environmental Choice license was a natural choice for us. The criteria are tough to comply with, but we do not want to compromise when it comes to sustainability. Something that has also proven to be highly valued by our customers.
Kenneth FalkCo-Founder and Sales, OurGreenCar
Labeling our traffic with Bra Miljöval helps us to communicate our traffic's environmental performance to our customers, employees and the public in a simple and clear way, while also helping us steer towards our goals.
Åsa HedmanHead of Sustainability, Skånetrafiken
Environment and sustainability are important to us and by eco-labelling our bus trips with an independent eco-label such as Bra Miljöval we take further responsibility in our sustainability work. The label is proof that our trips live up to the tough requirements that the customer can expect.
Jennie HögbergCo-Owner, Högbergs Bussresor AB
We want to make it even clearer that SL's passengers are making a responsible choice for the environment and climate every time they travel with us, as SL meets high environmental standards. That is why it has been important for us to be able to eco-label our trips with Bra Miljöval.
Erik NorlingDirector of Traffic Administration and CEO of SL
