Car sharing - a solution overlooked?

With traffic congestion on the roads of Britain continue to apply a series of solutions have been proposed as the most important taxes. But every day in Britain over 10 million empty seats on the roads. Worse still are the vast majority of these empty seats during peak hours with an average occupancy of only 1.2 for commuting. The solution seems simple enough - car-sharing. This is confirmed by recent research that over 50% of commuters would find his car shareWay of working, if they could find someone suitable to share with.

Car-sharing has often spoken, but only as a smaller solution is to have little significant effect on levels of congestion. Again, the evidence suggests otherwise. A 25% increase in employment levels fall in the number of car commuters' cars on the road leading to 21%. In other words, would it be a journey together only once a week, then the effect is similar to his work. With over 50% ofPeople are happy to Car-Sharing-out could be an achievable goal try.

So why car sharing has managed to take off big? In short, lack of funding. Without the money, to make known the car-sharing and how to find someone to share with, go to the concept of car sharing is not always a trivial solution is doomed to failure.

Why has not the means provided by the government, particularly given the many reports that have come in recentYears demonstrating the potential of car sharing? One can only speculate, but governments, the idea of car sharing is not as attractive. It does not generate additional revenue of the state and is in fact likely to reduce, especially with the lower fuel consumption. Compared to the prospect of continuing to increase dramatically taxes on motorists, many of whom have no other choice than to their cars, car sharing does not use a possibility.

The benefits of car sharing are also often farunderestimated. Car sharing works tremendously reduce fuel consumption for the individuals involved and, if promoted to major and congestion and pollution could be reduced significantly. Other benefits include reduced parking problems and the lower mileage done by each car means less rapidly loses value.

However, a statistic that is overlooked, the impact of car sharing on road safety. The number of fines in the United Kingdom in 2005 reached 2 million.Road safety is of such apparent importance of the statistics that the probability of an accident is reduced by 50% when two or more people in cars, the authorities should sit down and take note. One way to increase traffic is to promote car sharing. The additional fact that makes travel cheaper for the individual, and reduces traffic congestion and pollution, should encourage people to use car sharing seriously.

Be involved in car sharing is verywithout complications. Liftshare.org was founded in 1997 and today has over 130,000 registered users one million rides. It 'also free to join, with a simple registration form before signing a journey and begin the search for comprehensive travel companion. Whether you travel for business, festival or a sports car-sharing events is possible.