how to receive the “carpooling bonus”?
Carpooling has never done so well in France. To continue on this induced, the government will devote an envelope of 50 million euros. The objective is to increase from 900,000 monthly trips today to three million in the coming years. While 50 million empty seats circulate daily, tripling the number of carpoolers could avoid 4.5 million tons of CO2 per year, according to the Ministry of transportation.
In Toulouse, carpooling is increasingly attractive
In the Toulouse conurbation, all the lights are green to speed up carpooling. First of all, many partnerships in favor of carpooling have emerged between different actors.
At the level of local authorities, the Occitanie region has recently consolidated its system of subsidizing daily carpooling, which will be financially very advantageous for motorists coming from afar to work in Toulouse, such as Albi or Montauban.
Secondly, companies in Toulouse also play an essential role. Indeed, many employers have mobilized their employees. This is the case of AirbusSafran, Latécoère, CNES, Capgemini Engineering, Ramsay… which are all the partners of the Karos application, a carpooling platform domiciled – work, historically very well deployed in Toulouse.
“This commitment on the part of companies is essential to produce enough journeys to business areas”, explains the platform. Karoscarpooling platform.
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How to benefit from the bonus?
To recover this bonus of 100 euros, motorists will have to carpool on ten short trips in the space of three months. However, according to the Karos platform, countless French people therefore believe that they cannot fully validate their carpooling bonus, due to a lack of available and compatible carpooling trips. “Like the many messages like ‘I can’t find anyone to carpool!’ that we can already read everywhere on social networks”, analyzes Karos.
On the side of Toulouse, this problem seems minimal. And for good reason, the National Carpooling Observatory, a benchmark because it approves and counts carpooling by 21 operators, shows highly recommended figures for carpooling in Toulouse.
Number of trips made by carpooling within the Toulouse conurbation since November 2020. © Observatoire national du covoiturage
It actually shows record figures during the fall of 2022 in the Toulouse conurbation. For example, in September 2022, more than 11,000 carpooling trips were designated there.
Carpooling bonus: Toulouse residents will receive more than the national average
About 88% of motorists in the Toulouse conurbation be able to easily recover the 100 euros bonus. “Unlike the majority of territories in France, which are very late in setting up specific systems for the development of short-distance carpooling (short-distance carpooling), motorists in the Toulouse conurbation will have no obstacle in recovering the bonus. “, explains the Karos platform in a press release.
On thecarpooling application Karos, 88% of registrants who request carpooling obtain at least one positive response. This is the reason why, according to Karos, motorists in the Toulouse conurbation will inevitably capture and receive many more carpooling bonuses than the average French person.
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