
Flexible Ridesharing
New Opportunities and Service Concepts for Sustainable Mobility
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 29. January 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
X, 118 pages
978-3-642-43609-3 (ISBN)
Description
Individual mobility is one of the most important needs of modern society and an important link between private, public and economic life. In contrast, transport also entails severe environmental and social burdens, foiling current efforts for sustainable development. As the main source of CO2 emissions, transport is a prominent driver for climate change, and individual car traffic is responsible for nearly a third of the total energy consumption.
However, we have to consider that many commuters feel indeed very dependent on their car. Here, ridesharing promises to contribute to environmental protection, while still offering individual mobility. Although ridesharing options have been discussed since many years, internet and smartphones provide completeley new opportunities to find ridesharing partners today. Thus, this book deals with current efforts on implementing flexible internet- and phone-based ridesharing services. With a main focus on the users' perspective, their demands and acceptance limits, we aim to explore success factors for non-profit, but also commercial ridesharing concepts.
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Edition
2013 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
X, 118 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
207 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-642-43609-3 (9783642436093)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-11345-1
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New Opportunities and Service Concepts for Sustainable Mobility
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New Opportunities and Service Concepts for Sustainable Mobility
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Content
Introduction.- Mobility.- Carpooling.- The Carriva Ridesharing Club.- Launching the service: Reaching a critical mass by establishing an internet-based service.- Test phase: Start of the phone-based ridematching service.- Recommendations for the dissemination phase.- Assessment of sustainability impacts.- Outlook.- Bibliography