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The carpooling contributes remarkable economic and environingingmental advantages

Car shared: of the novelty to the need

María Izaguirre Vizcaya, director of Quality consultancy of Novadays21/06/2012

21 June 2012

It is not question of fashions, there are practices that would have to extend and happen to form part of our culture, of our form to do the things. One of them is, in my opinion, the one of the car shared. Today, besides, the actions of impulse of the car shared have turned into some best practices in the politics of sustainable mobility.

The measures headed to that the mobility in particular vehicle realise sharing this with other people with the same origin and destination, serve of complement to others that adopt in a frame of new behaviours that the cities and his citizens go adopting progressively, like the pedestrianization of the centrical zones or the promotion of the utilisation of the bicycle. A group of practices that do of us conscious people of our own ecological footprint, and of the personal responsibility of each one to minimise said footprint.

María Izaguirre Vizcaya, director of Quality consultancy of Novadays.

To these heights there is not anybody that does not create necessary to reduce the traffic in the cities, already was by the pollution or by the excess of vehicles and shortage of space. Change the guidelines of mobility (understanding these like the need to displace of a place to another) is task more complicated that modify the habits and/or create new habits, as it can be the displace us on foot, in bicycle or sharing car.

All know that, often, the private use of the car is unavoidable and, therefore, necessary. However, the alternative to share it refuses sometimes by fault of habit, comfort or any another lower reason. A personal reflection on the suitability to share car will offer evidences on the positive effect of this practice, so much in the economic (with savings in this important game of our monthly expenses that represents the transport), as in the environingingmental (taking out trucks of the road and the city).

The poles of generation of traffic, as they can be universities, hospitals and big business complexes are perfect aims so that this practice go extending by all the geography, thus, the projects to share car have turned into an indispensable action in the plans of sustainable mobility that carry out in the different cities, polygons, parks, etc.

The carpooling appeared in EE UU after the Second World War, and had his peak in the energetic crises and of oil of the years 70. In Europe with the apparition of Internet, extended quickly and many of his countries carry a decade benefiting of this.

In Spain is something more recent, but already exist diverse on-line platforms to improve it. The existent models are simple and are the own users those that put in contact ones with others, facilitating or requesting, the information of schedules, prices, routes, etc.

Saving and environingingmental consciousness are the two main crowbars that carry to the people to share car. Two concepts that suppose still, for some generations, the loss of a standard of quality of life; but that, for other (the youngest), show precisely the contrary: the bet by a new lifestyle. It is not question of fashions, is, simply that the things change.