Car Pooling

La mobilité en milieu rural présente aujourd'hui deux enjeux principaux : -d'une part, il existe un déficit important de connaissances autour de la question : les publications sur le sujet sont trop généralistes, ou trop partielles ; -d'autre part, trois catégories de populations « mobiles » peuvent être distinguées, dont les mobilités sont problématiques d'un point de vue social ou environnemental. Quelles organisations de la mobilité plus durables et moins dépendantes de la...

Befordring i landdistrikterne er et centralt emne i disse år, hvor den kollektive transport omorganiseres og bliver efterspørgselsstyret, befolkningstallet er vigende og behovet for befordring er større end nogensinde før. Samtidigt åbner moderne kommunikationsteknologi op for nye måder at organisere befordringen på. Derfor blev befordringsbehovet undersøgt i Favrskov Kommunes landdistrikter (det åbne land og landsbysamfund med op til 1.000 indbyggere). Dataindsamlingen blev foretaget ved hjælp af en spørgeskemaundersøgelse, fokusgruppeinterviews og en ekspertkonference. Hovedresulta- terne fra undersøgelsen er, at landdistriktsbeboerne i det store hele har de samme problemer og daglige udfordringer, som flere tidligere undersøgelser fra Danmark også viser: nemlig at den kollektive transport kun opfattes som et relevant og brugbart personbefordringsmiddel af et fåtal, og det vigtigste transportmiddel er personbilen, samt at befordringsbehovet ikke opfyldes tilstrækkeligt. Endvidere ...

The paper approaches the actual situation of carpooling, by reporting the most updated data divided by its different orms: private, corporate and urban carpooling. For this last kind some innovative experience are reported: instant carpooling, carpooling integrated with car sharing and with other transport modes. The potential of carpooling in the future scenario of disruptive technologies, such as the autonomous driving cars and the dynamic road charging is analyzed. Finally a proposal for some recommendations related to the user-centered approach and on the role of the different stakeholders.

Les conditions de production d'un transport durable Quelles organisations de la mobilité plus durables et moins dépendantes de la voiture dans les espaces ruraux à faible densité ? L'exemple du Parc naturel régional Loire-Anjou-Touraine Which organizations for more sustainable and less dependent on the car mobilities in rural areas? The example of the Parc naturel régional Loire-Anjou-Touraine

While road pricing (RP) is considered one of the most effective means of traffic demand management (TDM), its poor acceptability has been the greatest impediment to its implementation. The authors propose a 'parking deposit system' (PDS) as an alternative RP scheme, and the aim of this study is to examine PDS's superiority focusing primarily on acceptability. To mutually verify the acceptability of PDS and conventional RP, the authors conducted a survey in the city of Nagoya, the third-largest incorporated city and the fourth most populous urban area in Japan. This survey distributed a comprehensive questionnaire to visitors and business establishments, in and around the city, eliciting a significant response. In this study process, the authors firstly built the decision-making structure model of RP/PDS by public/business establishment to clarify the decisionmaking mechanism in detail. Secondly, the approval models were built to estimate the differentia of the acceptability between RP and PDS. From this study PDS can be thought to have the higher acceptability, and to be useful measure as an alternative RP scheme.

This study deals with the application of a Web structure available to both Mobility Managers and employees. Its main functionalities enable the Mobility Manager to collect mobility data that can be used to design some optimal home-to-work mobility strategies and the employees to access a car pooling service. The realisation of this Web structure has been made possible by using, as support tools, Intelligent Transportation System Technologies such as Geographic Information System and Web services beside a communication network. The realisation of the application has been preceded by a pilot survey carried out within an industrial area in South Sardinia. The survey results have highlighted the need for an organised management of the home-to-work mobility, as well as the sample's willingness to use viable alternatives to private car use. In this article, the modules related to the on line questionnaires and the car pooling service are investigated. With reference to the car pooling service, the functioning of the matching algorithm has been tested by using the pilot survey results and is described in the appendix. The testing results show that the response times for the algorithm are acceptable for home-to-work trips, within the territorial context investigated in this research.

The paper approaches the actual situation of carpooling, by reporting the most updated data divided by its different orms: private, corporate and urban carpooling. For this last kind some innovative experience are reported: instant carpooling, carpooling integrated with car sharing and with other transport modes. The potential of carpooling in the future scenario of disruptive technologies, such as the autonomous driving cars and the dynamic road charging is analyzed. Finally a proposal for some recommendations related to the user-centered approach and on the role of the different stakeholders.

This paper introduces a mobility platform aimed at reducing individual car use by combining the car flexibility and comfort with the advantages by public transport, such as punctuality, safety and lower environmental impact. The platform, named SocialCar, delivers its services by means of a smartphone app, which performs multi-modal vehicle routing by accounting for walking, public transport and car-pooling rides. SocialCar was developed within a Horizon2020 project and was field tested in four European sites, engaging common citizens and their everyday mobility needs. In this paper we first present the app and the field test of the SocialCar platform we run in Southern Switzerland. We then discuss the outcomes of the field test, by presenting the challenges to be addressed when using real-life data (shortcomings in mapping, public transport and car-pooling data) and summarizing the strengths and weaknesses with respect to the potential large-scale diffusion of the SocialCar platform.

The paper approaches the actual situation of carpooling, by reporting the most updated data divided by its different orms: private, corporate and urban carpooling. For this last kind some innovative experience are reported: instant carpooling, carpooling integrated with car sharing and with other transport modes. The potential of carpooling in the future scenario of disruptive technologies, such as the autonomous driving cars and the dynamic road charging is analyzed. Finally a proposal for some recommendations related to the user-centered approach and on the role of the different stakeholders.