ride-sharing in 35 countries of europe / 3 problems - 3 solutions
protect environment - save money - meet new people

Even with rising environmental awareness and climate programs the pollution of environment is still going on. Every avoided ride reduces the pollution of CO2 and helps to improve our air and our habitat.

Ricing petrol prices leave less and less money in the purse of mobile people. Drivers can reduce their costs by getting a contribution fee from passengers while they can reduce costs in evading other expensive transportation.

Our society becomes more and more virtual. Everbody knows weblogs, forums or chatrooms and to meet for lunch with our office colleagues we send emails. Direct speech does almost not take place anymore. Riding in a carpool brings you back to direct speech. Talking "face to face" brings you away from only exchanging data with computers.

less pollution - cost savings - more communication

The idea of carpools is not new but even more necessary in modern and mobile times. More and more people become more and more mobile and waste more ressource in doing so. A look to our streets shows that too many cars are driven by one single person. Approximately 30 kilogramm of CO2 pollution is avoided by riding in a carpool over a distance of 300 kilometer. Every passenger is avoiding this!
easy calculation: more persons per car = less cars = less pollution

The second advantage of carpools is the cost sharing. High raw material prices leave less and less money in the purses of people but no one wants to reduce already habitual mobility whether a student riding home or a comuter riding to work every day. So how to get a win-win situation? The solution are carpools.
easy calculation: more persons per car = less euro per km = more savings for everybody

Last but not least, personal and direct communication is the third advantage of carpools. Even if the users get known by a online-platform they leave fast this virtual reality and get in contact directly. Carpools can not avoid virtual isolation but help to get some nice encounters at a journey or at the ride to work.
easy final calculation: more persons per car = more communication