Corporates encourage employees to carpooling, use ride share apps : A recent report by Dutch location and navigation services provider TomTom had found Bengaluru to be the foremost traffic-congested city within the world, followed by Mumbai, Pune and New Delhi that also finished within the top 10. Sharing commutes not only saves cost and fuel, but also reduces the strain of daily travel.
KOLKATA / BENGALURU: Many top corporates within the country are now proactively encouraging employees to carpool, bikepool, and use ride-share apps to commute to figure to assist ease persistent traffic gridlocks across Indian cities every working day and reduce pollution .
Companies with large workforces like InfosysNSE -4.19 %, Capgemini, Cognizant, HCL, Amazon, Flipkart, Siemens, L&T, Biocon and HDFC Bank and a number of other smaller companies are running awareness campaigns, fixing digital platforms to assist employees plan commutes better, and even rewarding top carpoolers to stay employees engaged and motivated to scale back carbon emissions and traffic jams across cities.
A recent report by Dutch location and navigation services provider TomTom had found Bengaluru to be the foremost traffic-congested city within the world. Three other Indian cities within the TomTom Traffic Index 2019, that ranked 416 cities across the planet supported congestion – Mumbai, Pune and New Delhi – too, finished within the top 10.
Sharing commutes not only saves cost and fuel, but also reduces the strain of daily travel, means service providers during this segment whose business is booming.
Carpooling platform ZozoCar said almost 25 new companies check in hebdomadally and 300,000 new users join the platform monthly; commute automation platform MoveInSync said it’s growing 50% month-on-month; and, social carpooling app sRide said it’s 550 companies on its platform across 10 cities, an almost four-fold jump from two years ago.
