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Good reasons to encourage carpooling

Why should you provide a carpooling program to the members of your community?

Your organization is planning to provide a carpooling program to its employees, students or citizens and you would like to learn more about the benefits of carpooling ?

Whether you represent an employer, a college, a university, a city or a transit agency, this section will certainly convince you of all the benefits that comes with a carpooling program.

We invite you to consult the appropriate section which corresponds to the type of organization you represent. Also don't forget to consult the topic listing the benefits which can take advantage drivers and passengers using carpooling for their daily commutes.

Benefits for the employer (+)

 
For some organizations, the amounts of money reimbursed to employees who make business travels with their personal vehicles exceed several million dollars per year.
The Carpooling Network offers different tools to help your organization encourage carpooling and to make a simple and effective management of the business travels made by your staff.
 
A structured carpooling program is a sustainable social and environmental initiative that will help your organization to reduce its business travels related carbon footprint.
 
Staff retention, value-added activities facilitating your recruitment, reduced absenteeism, increased productivity, improvement of your benefits package and more!
 
Our data indicate that an individual who carpools on a daily basis can save at least $ 2,500.00 annually.
 
The Carpooling Network offers different options for a simple and effective management of parking spaces reserved for carpoolers. These tools will help you to optimize the use of your parking lots infrastructure.

Benefits for the college / university (+)

 
A carpooling program is an excellent complement to a public transit system. Affordable and simple to implement, this alternative will increase the mobility of your staff and students.
 
The Carpooling Network offers different options for a simple and an effective management of parking spaces reserved for carpoolers. These tools will help you to optimize the use of your parking lots infrastructure.
 
Our data indicate that an individual who carpools on a daily basis can save at least $ 2,500.00 annually.
 
A structured carpooling program is a sustainable social and environmental initiative that will help your organization to reduce the carbon footprint related to the daily commutes and other trips made by its community.
 
For some institutions, the amounts of money reimbursed to employees who make business travels with their personal vehicles exceed several million dollars per year.
The Carpooling Network offers different tools to help you encourage carpooling and to make a simple and effective management of the business travels made by your staff.

Benefits for the city / transit agency (+)

 
A carpooling program is an excellent complement to a public transit system. Affordable and simple to implement, this alternative will increase the mobility of your community.
 
Considering the wide range of benefits related to carpooling, the presence of such a service for your citizens is an added value to the range of services provided by your city or transit agency to its community.
 
A structured carpooling program is a sustainable social and environmental initiative that will help your community to reduce the carbon footprint related to any daily commutes and other trips.
 
Carpooling is an effective solution that will contribute to reduce traffic congestion. Statistics indicating that over 70% of cars have only one person on board leave room for improvement.
 
Our data indicate that an individual who carpools on a daily basis can save at least $ 2,500.00 annually.

Benefits for the drivers and the passengers (+)

 
Our data indicate that an individual who carpools on a daily basis can save at least $ 2,500.00 annually. We invite you to try the Driving cost sharing & GHG calculator to find out how much you could save !
 
Carpooling on a daily basis can help a commuter to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by up to 1.5 ton of carbon dioxide per year.
 
By carpooling you will be allowed to use available HOV lanes of the road network which will make you save time when traveling.
 
Studies have shown that a driver alone in a vehicle is more at risk of having an accident than if he shares his car with other passengers.
 
As you take part of a carpool as a passenger, you will have the opportunity to relax and to go through different occupations during the ride (i.e.: Read a book, take a nap, listening to music, work on your laptop, etc.).


 
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