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Online and App-Based Carpooling in France: Analyzing Users and Practices—A Study of BlaBlaCar

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This chapter examines the characteristics and practices of ridesharing users in France. In May 2013, the authors surveyed members of BlaBlaCar, the largest online and app-based carpooling service in France, to analyze the sociodemographic characteristics and usage patterns of the [...]

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A Ride-Sharing Problem with Meeting Points and Return Restrictions

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Ride sharing has been widely acknowledged as an effective solution for reducing travel costs, congestion, and pollution. This paper considers the ride-sharing problem of the scheduled commuter and business traffic within a closed community of companies that agree to share the calendars [...]

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The introduction of automated vehicles and its implications for society and the environment

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The findings in this paper show the big potential contributions of automated cars to improvements of the"br" ecologic situation and social inclusion in the mobility market. These potential effects are however dependent on"br" the future use cases of this new technology and will only [...]

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ORTiC : A novel Approach towards Optimized Real Time CarPooling with an advanced Network Representation Model on siblings

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International audience; Thanks to the important and increasing growth of the Carpooling phenomenon throughout the world, many researchers have particularly focused their efforts on this concept. Researches led to many systems affording carpooling service. However, most of those systems [...]

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Estudio de la gestión de la movilidad en grandes ciudades y análisis de los sistemas actuales basados en movilidad compartida

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[ES] El trabajo analiza la movilidad en grandes ciudades. Se estudian diferentes medios de transporte y se abordan las medidas adoptadas sobre movilidad compartida, así como cuál ha sido su impacto en cada caso. Se identifican también aquellas características que aportan valor al cliente. Las conclusiones sirven de base para el diseño de una aplicación que permita gestionar los diferentes medios de transporte de movilidad compartida, que sea de fácil uso y reúna las buenas prácticas de empresas que proporcionan servicios de movilidad. [EN] Nowadays, there are many mobility providers available on the market, like for example bike sharing apps, car sharing apps or even the so old and famous taxi cab. This makes people’s life easier and more connected, as now, travelling from one place to another can be easier, less time consuming and more economical than in the past few years. Social life can be enhanced this way, although not everything can be positive when regarding the pollution that transportation generates. As time passes, more and more people are being aware of this issue, so there is a need for sustainable mobility to develop in big cities in the form of car sharing and the increased use of public transport. Car sharing is something that has been going on for many years, not 10 or 20 years ago, but more than 60 years ago, car sharing was starting to get popular in the united states. Not everyone had the privilege of owning a car, and those who owned a car did share the car with, for example workmates and shared the cost of it. Car sharing became more important in the US with the oil crisis, this is were the government incentivised carpooling and started applying measures for the purpose. Nowadays, the problem is not an oil crisis, but immense traffic jams, and air pollution in cities, which translate to a waste of time and health hazards for those living inside those big cities. Governments have realised, that in a long term its even more expensive to treat people with health issues related to bad air quality than to eliminate the pollution that causes them. Therefore recently, governments are making big efforts to improve the air quality, so therefore improve people’s lives. Recent studies determined that for the last 10 years, the tendency for young people is to delay the purchase of a car and use shared mobility, although this kind of new method to travel hasn’t been fully accepted by people over a certain age. The challenge today is to make as much people as possible to acknowledge the benefits of shared mobility, not only regarding to carbon emissions, but also the benefits regarding reduced costs and time of travel. Shared mobility is something that everyone will have present in a few years, nowadays shared mobility is just an option, like for example, mobile phones on the 90’s, but currently, mobile phones are a need, as our daily life relies entirely on them. With shared mobility, something similar may happen, as with time, the need to travel is getting more and more important, so it is essential to give customers what they really want and give our world what it really needs. Lledó Jannone, P. (2019). Estudio de la gestión de la movilidad en grandes ciudades y análisis de los sistemas actuales basados en movilidad compartida. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/144239 TFGM

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Optimization and Comparative Analysis of Traffic Restriction Policy by Jointly Considering Carpool Exemptions

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As a countermeasure to urban exhaust pollution and traffic congestion, traffic restriction policy (TRP) and carpooling strategy have been widely introduced throughout the world. However, their effects are largely determined by the rationality of implementing policies, and unreasonable [...]

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Solving “Smart City” Transport Problems by Designing Carpooling Gamification Schemes with Multi-Agent Systems: The Case of the So-Called “Mordor of Warsaw”

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To reduce energy consumption and improve residents’ quality of life, “smart cities” should use not only modern technologies, but also the social innovations of the “Internet of Things” (IoT) era. This article attempts to solve transport problems in a smart city’s office [...]

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Of “white crows” and “cash savers:” A qualitative study of travel behavior and perceptions of ridesharing in Denmark

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Based on original research collected through semi-structured research interviews and five focus groups throughout Denmark, this study explores Danish perceptions about ad hoc, acquaintance-based, and organization-based ridesharing (“carpooling”). Using a grounded, qualitative [...]

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A new business model strategy to improve shared mobility services : A case study on Sweden

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It is widely recognized that the world’s over-reliance on transportation contributes to many environmental problems, especially in urban areas. Sustainable mobility is a solution and an important dimension of a Smart City. Shared mobility services are part of sustainable mobility and they are widening its portfolio especially in the past decade. However, the number of users is still low compared to its high potential, and innovative solutions can only succeed with the combination of increasing the awareness of citizens, incentivizing them, and promoting their behavioural change. This paper is dedicated to the shared mobility business models as part of the collaborative consumption, and finding out the challenges and opportunities of this emerging market in a Swedish context and comparing it to a Moroccan one. The goal is to explore the key features of the main market players and the possible ways of improvements that could possibly take carpooling and car-sharing to a next level. It explores the high potential of gamification and other mechanisms to incentivize voluntary behavioural changes towards shared mobility solutions. In a first place the theoretical part provide an overview of the shared mobility in general with its different aspects highlighting the role of new technologies and internet in the development of this concept. An online survey aimed at testing the knowledge of the respondents on the concept, discover which elements affect their involvement and find out how things can be improved by analysing the feedbacks. Det är allmänt känt att världens beroenden av transporter bidrar till många miljöproblem, särskilt i stadsområden. Hållbar mobilitet är en lösning och en viktig dimension i en smart stad. Delade mobilitetstjänster är en del av hållbar mobilitet och dess portfölj har utökats särskilt under det senaste decenniet. Antalet användare är dock fortfarande lågt jämfört med den höga potentialen och innovativa lösningar kan bara lyckas med kombinationen av att öka medvetenheten om medborgarna, stimulera dem och främja deras beteendeförändringar. Denna rapport är inriktat på affärsmodellerna för delad mobilitet som en del av konsumtion genom samarbete och identifierar utmaningarna och möjligheterna på den nya marknaden i ett svenskt sammanhang och jämför det med en marockansk. Målet är att utforska huvudaktörerna hos de viktigaste marknadsaktörerna och möjliga sätt för förbättringar som möjligen kan ta bilpoolning och bildelning till nästa nivå. Potentialen inom gamification och andra mekanismer för att stimulera frivilliga beteendemässiga förändringar mot gemensamma mobila lösningar undersöks. Inledningsvis ger den teoretiska delen en översikt över den delade mobiliteten i allmänhet med sina olika aspekter som framhäver rollen som ny teknik och internet vid utvecklingen av detta koncept. Genom en online-undersökning som syftar till att testa kunskapen om konceptet hos de svarande, har faktorer som påverkar deras engagemang och hur saker kan förbättras identifierats.

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Travelers’ attitudes toward carpooling in Lahore: motives and constraints

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Traffic congestion has become a critical issue in developing countries, as it tends to increase social costs in terms of travel cost and time, energy consumption and environmental degradation. With limited resources, reducing travel demand by influencing individuals’ travel behavior [...]

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