What if you offered to carpool your colleagues - while respecting barrier gestures of course?
Sharing a car with 3 or 4 to make your journeys profitable and reduce your ecological footprint: carpooling appeared a few years ago in France, in particular thanks to sites like Blablacar.
The concept has since become more democratic, even if it would benefit from being optimized over short distances, such as the commute to work for example.
In fact, the average occupancy rate for short-distance carpooling is 2,56. Only 5% of home-work trips are made by carpooling, or 330 million trips out of 7,2 billion per year.
Excluding two passengers in the vehicle, the environmental impact drops by 50%, then 75% from four passengers.
It is therefore over short distances that carpooling is most effective. It makes it possible to significantly reduce the environmental impact of car use: air pollution, CO2 emissions, traffic jams, etc.
Carpooling also makes it possible to make the cost of journeys profitable (gasoline, insurance, vehicle wear, etc.).
So, will you take up the challenge of carpooling with your colleagues?
For more information on the environmental impact of carpooling, click here.
