Good for the environment and the wallet, carpooling has something to appeal to drivers. Especially since several aid schemes have been put in place in recent months. The latest, the government’s carpooling plan, dates from January. What conclusions can we draw?
Regional aid system for the start of the 2022 school year, national plan since January 2023… In recent months, the inhabitants of Occitanie have been strongly encouraged to carpool for their daily journeys! Were these operations effective? We take stock.
Since January 2022, the tendency to share a car to get around has been on the rise in our region. There are, however, two times when the practice experienced a boost: the months of September 2022 and January 2023, dates on which the aid systems came into force.
Nothing but over the first three months of this year, 212,840 journeys were made by carpooling in Occitanie. A way of getting around that both saves money and limits its impact on the environment.
In the region, for example, every month more than 300 tonnes of CO2 are not released into the air through carpooling. That’s the equivalent of 300 round trips from Paris to New York by plane!
In Occitania, carpooling is practiced mainly for make daily trips. More than two thirds of them are made on short or medium distances: between 0 and 30 kilometersat the usual times of arrival and departure from work. The morning peak is between 7 and 8 a.m., the evening peak at 5 p.m..
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Carpooling is developing very strongly in urban areas, between Toulouse and Montauban for example or between Béziers, Montpellier and Nîmes. But the campaign is no exception. In the Hautes-Pyrénées, in Lozère or in Aveyron, the practice is also growing.
If Occitania is not the champion of France in carpooling, it is however placed at the fourth place in metropolitan areas as far as practice is concerned, behind Normandy, Pays de la Loire and Île-de-France.
Everywhere in metropolitan France – with the exception of Corsica – the number of journeys made by carpooling has tended to increase since January.
