On: Workshop: Transportation

Antti Ruotoistenmäki from Lifelong Learning Institute Dipoli, Aalto University gave a workshop in transportation.

We pared up to come up with ideas for new personal transport. My group chose the question private car vs. shared car and came up with Super carpool, a on-line application and a company that takes care of rental cars, electric cars. The idea would be that everyone having a profile in the application could offer their car for carpooling or ask for a ride, if no-one that wants to go the same distance has a car one person would pick up a company car and then the other people for the ride. The service could be used both for daily commuting and work- and leisure trips, it would be geographically fixed, but could span a network over many countries and in multiple languages, so that also visitors to a country could use it. The users would pay by km through the application and the ones offering their cars would get discount for less polluting cars.

Gimme a ride! There are cars driving here and there all the time. And quite some uses of them have been invented. Hiching a ride has decreased in popularity as cars have become more common, but it's still possible to get anywhere you want, if you dare to try. In some places any car is a black taxi, in others drivers look for possible passengers. Some people that go the same way to work might carpool, The amount of rides parents give their children should not be underestimated, take me to trainings take me to school.

Hichwiki - How to hichhike
Mitfahrgelegenheit - Arrange a ride, big in Germany
Carpoolworld - Get around
CityCarClub - Laina-auto pääkaupunkiseudulta
Aalto EcoMobility Initiative - Liikkumistarpeen vähentäminen