How Carpool Service helps to Control Traffic Congestion

GreenCar, a nonprofit enterprise has been started with the vision  to connect users who have cars or car seats to share, with other users who are looking for a cheaper, more convenient, and easy-to-access-through-mobile app/web based platform for finding their own rides to work on real time basis. With the rise in income and various finance schemes, private vehicles are becoming more common and increasing in number where as the road infrastructure remains the same.

The traffic congestion is getting worse every day and the rising fuel cost is adding to the higher vehicle ownership cost as well. With all these factors, the daily commute for an average office goer is becoming an unpleasant and hectic experience. Most of the people today are suffering Traffic Stress Syndrome, resulting in unnecessary honking, rash driving, road rage and accidents. People are becoming more disconnected than ever. We want to provide an alternative mode of daily commute option which is comfortable yet affordable for the passengers and gives the car-owner a platform to recover their vehicle ownership cost.

India needs every citizen’s help to bring down the dangerously high air pollution level it is currently at. It is our civic duty to use carpool service as much we can, at an individual level, to reduce the damage done to our ecosphere on a daily basis. Since, carpooling is one of the economic ways of contributing to this cause, we urge you to support the cause and help us help the country.

As commonly experienced by any road user of Delhi/Bangalore/Hyderabad or any metros, private cars are causing traffic congestion by inefficiently using the limited road space - the cars are typically carrying only one to two commuters against a capacity of 5 or more (a low 20 to 40% capacity utilization). The present scheme however treats the available spare capacity in cars as an opportunity to provide a transport solution - whereby 3-4 Commuter, instead of traveling in separate cars, accommodate themselves in one car, especially during peak hours. In other words, the scheme aims to increase the capacity utilization (also called load factor) of cars to 60-80% and in the process take at least 50 % cars off the road. A 50 % reduction in number of cars plying on roads during peak hours, would decongest roads, increase traffic speed, and cut down fuel consumption by more than 50 per cent. And yes, they do their bit for the environment by saving on fuel emissions.