Detailed description (English): We are developing a ride-sharing smartphone application called DedoCar, that improves the traditional carpooling method of commuting (which requires all people sharing a car to be both neighbors and workmates).
With the aid of our app, the car can pick-up and drop several passengers along it's entire route towards the driver destination.
We encourage the passengers to facilitate the work of the driver, by walking for a few minutes to move on foot from home to a place where many cars pass, so that at peak traffic time it is easy to find several ones that goes in the same direction. We also ask you not to demand that the driver leave you at the door of the job, but admit to walking a certain distance from where the car can leave you, without deviating excessively from your route.
The use of an electric scooter will make it easier for passengers to move effortless and in the same travel time, at greater distances than if they were walking; thus greatly increasing their chances of finding a car that will take them.
The ease with which the scooters can be folded, allows them to be carried in the trunk of the car, until they are needed again for the last leg of the passenger's journey.
Detailed description (original language): Estamos desarrollando una aplicación de smartphone llamada DedoCar, que mejora el procedimiento del "carpooling tradicional" para ir la trabajo (que requiere que todos los que comparten un coche sean a la vez vecinos y compañeros de trabajo).
Con ayuda de nuestra app, el coche puede ir recogiendo y dejando pasajeros a lo largo de toda su ruta hacia el lugar de destino de su conductor.
Pedimos a los pasajeros que faciliten el trabajo al conductor, caminando durante unos minutos para desplazarse a pie desde su casa hasta un lugar por donde pasen muchos coches, de forma que en la hora punta del tráfico sea fácil encontrar varios coches que vayan en su misma dirección. También les pedimos que no exijan que el conductor les deje en la puerta del trabajo, sino que admitan caminar cierta distancia desde donde el coche los pueda dejar, para que no tenga que desviarse excesivamente de su ruta.
El uso de un patinete eléctrico facilitará que los pasajeros puedan desplazarse sin esfuerzo y en el mismo tiempo de viaje, a mayores distancias que si fueran andando; aumentando así en gran medida sus probabilidades de encontrar un coche que les lleve.
La facilidad de los patinetes para plegarse, permite llevarlos en el maletero del coche hasta el momento de que vuelvan a necesitarse para el último tramo del viaje del pasajero.
Target group(s): Commuters who need to go to workplace by car, due to long travel distances.
6 out of ten Spaniards are willing to share daily car rides to save travel expenses, but currently they don't know who else is going their way
Objectives: Reduce the number of cars riding at peak traffic time (which are blamed to pollute an 80% more, because of being trapped in traffic jams), by harnessing 4,000,000 empty car's seats which are wasted each day in the cars riding in a city like Madrid, with a mean occupancy of 1.1 persons per car.
Expected Outcomes: Up to 1,000,000 CO2 Ton emissions reduction per year (in each city of the size of Madrid)
Partner: DedoCar.org