Contact : Matthieu Bloch

Objectives

This study will initially aim to assess, on the basis of the available data, the kinds of daily trips that could be performed by carpooling (motives, distances, territories, passenger profiles, etc.). The goal will also be to identify areas of uncertainty and data points that currently represent hypotheticals for public and private actors. This analysis will allow us to estimate the development potential of short-distance carpooling.

In the second step, the purpose will be to analyze the public efforts to promote and establish the conditions to make daily carpooling possible, in light of its potential (known, supposed or uncertain).

Methodology

First step: What do we know about the pertinence and the potential for short-distance carpooling?

• Identifying the data sources about the practices and potential for short-distance carpooling: doctoral theses, ADEME and CEREMA studies, market studies, potential studies and diagnoses carried out as part of employer travel plans (Plans de Déplacements Employeurs), foresight work (CGEDD, think tanks, etc.) and interviews with the authors of these studies
• Analyzing case studies (initiatives by local authorities, carpooling start-ups, etc.) and interviews with public and private actors

Step Two: Are public policies and public funding adapted to this potential?

• Analyzing the investments and costs for the State and local authorities (direct and indirect)
• Assessing these costs in light of the potential identified in Part I and in comparison with other mobility services, in particular public transport

Step Three: What are the recommendations?

• In view of the results obtained in parts one and two, a work group of experts in public mobility policies will make recommendations and proposals.

Bibliography

ADEME (2017), Développement du covoiturage régulier de courte et moyenne distance – Guide méthodologique [Development of regular short- and medium-distance carpooling – Methodological guide], 2017 edition

ADEME (2015), Leviers d’actions pour favoriser le covoiturage de courte distance, évaluation de l’impact sur les polluants atmosphériques et le CO2 – Leviers d’actions, benchmark et exploitation de l’enquête nationale Transports et déplacements (ENTD) [Levers of action to promote short-distance carpooling, assessing the impact on air pollutants and CO2 – Levers of action, benchmark and exploitation of the National Transport and Travel Survey (ENTD)] – Study carried out by INDIGGO and EnvirOconsult. 233 pages.

ADEME (2010), Caractérisation de services et usages du covoiturage en France : Quels impacts sur l’environnement, quelles perspectives d’amélioration ? Rapport final [Characterization of services and uses of carpooling in France: What are the environmental impacts, what are the prospects for improvement? Final Report], November.

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CEREMA, (2013), Le covoiturage : des pistes pour favoriser son développement, rapport final [Carpooling: ways to promote its development, final report], 92 pages

CEREMA (2018), Le covoiturage courte et moyenne distance : retours d’expériences, freins et leviers [Short and medium distance carpooling: feedback, obstacles and levers]

General Commission for Sustainable Development (2014), Le covoiturage pour les déplacements domicile-travail : quel potentiel ? [Carpooling for commuting: what potential?] – General Commission for Sustainable Development

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Mobility

For the Mobile Lives Forum, mobility is understood as the process of how individuals travel across distances in order to deploy through time and space the activities that make up their lifestyles. These travel practices are embedded in socio-technical systems, produced by transport and communication industries and techniques, and by normative discourses on these practices, with considerable social, environmental and spatial impacts.

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Altermobilities

Altermobilities represent all the alternative behaviours to an exclusive use of the private car for travel. They also imply a certain right to be slower, and pre-suppose that geographical and social spaces will be organised in ways that take into account a more limited use of cars.

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