Klaxit: Mulhouse renews its carpooling offer
This page is translated from the original post "Klaxit : Mulhouse renouvelle son offre de covoiturage" in French.
- 07/06/2023 12:04
After an initial trial in 2021, the Mulhouse-Alsace urban area renews its partnership with Klaxit for carpooling.
The Mulhouse-Alsace urban area (m2A) is committed to reducing solo drivers through its partnership with Klaxit, renewed for 2023 with a budget of €60,000.
With the aim of improving quality of life and the environment in the 39 towns of the Mulhouse-Alsace Agglomeration, m2A offers residents the opportunity to carpool in exchange for compensation. Since May 15, the agglomeration has been paying between €2 and €3 per passenger in partnership with Klaxit.
Additionally, to encourage carpooling, m2A and Klaxit are offering the first ten trips free. After that, you will pay €0.50 per trip. According to the agglomeration, during the first trial with carpooling, service users completed 11,230 trips.
Carpooling, a future solution for ecology?
According to the National Observatory of Daily Carpooling (ONCQ), carpooling transported over 784,543 people between April 2022 and April 2023. The average distance of these carpools is 24.15 km, with an average duration of 25 minutes.
These figures indicate that a large portion of these carpools are made on trips between home and work. With the development of the sector through apps (BlaBlaCar, Klaxit, Karos…) and the government’s “daily carpooling” plan, this service is showing promising prospects!
Moreover, with fewer individual vehicles on the road, air quality improves. Indeed, Mulhouse-Alsace Agglomeration noted that carpooling prevented the release of 64 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere. They estimate that this equals 64 round trips by plane from Paris to New York.
This is a first step toward improving air quality in cities, in addition to allowing drivers to earn money. Combined with other government and local authority initiatives (bike purchase subsidies, Low-Emission Zones), this will lead to a better quality of life for the French population.
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