What are the benefits of car sharing?
Considerable! Reduced costs, reduced congestion and pollution and improved access in areas with limited public transport.
What are the problems we face?
- Traffic has increased by over 60% since 1980.
- Cars are the biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions.
- Congestion costs the UK £19 billion a year.
- Public transport costs are rising.
- Every day there are 10 million empty seats on our roads.
What difference can car sharing make?
- If average car occupancy were to increase by half - with 2.37 persons per car rather than 1.58 - it would lead to a one-third fall in traffic.
- If there were an increase of 10% - with 1.74 persons per car on average - this would reduce traffic on our roads by 9%.
- Over half of drivers would share a car to work if there was someone suitable to travel with.
- A 10% car occupancy rise would reduce congestion by as much as a doubling rail usage.
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