What is Ride Sharing? 

     Ride sharing is an arrangement in which a passenger travels in a private vehicle with its owner for free, or with a agreed fee between passenger and vehicle owner.

Ride Sharing involves seeking a ride in a vehicle operated by another traveler who is going from-to the same or nearby origin and destinations.

      Ride sharing means more ecological and economical transport compared to single occupancy car travel as more than one person can ride in a vehicle meaning less consumption of fuel per person transport kilometer and enabling higher traffic density. These services have mobile optimized web apps and also many have native mobile apps.

Why Ride Sharing?

Road Traffic

    According to a study by IIT Madras Traffic congestion on Delhi roads costs around $10 billion or about ₹60,000 crore annually and that could get increase by year 2030 around  ₹98,000 crore yearly unless steps are taken to tackle the daily mayhem. 

Traffic congestion on Delhi roads costs

The definition of peak hours has changed as almost all major roads remain clogged from 9 am to 9 pm and it's worst in the case of roads linking Gurgaon, Faridabad, Noida and Ghaziabad.

Another study by a global automobile major in 2015 had shown that congestion was the main reason for anxiety for at least six out of every 10 Indian drivers on the roads.

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Road Accidents

One serious road accident in the country occurs every minute and 16 die on Indian roads every hour.

1214 road crashes occur every day in India.

20 children under the age of 14 die every day due to road crashes in in the country.

377 people die every day, equivalent to a jumbo jet crashing every day.

Two people die every hour in Uttar Pradesh – State with maximum number of road crash deaths.

Tamil Nadu is the state with the maximum number of road crash injuries

Top 10 Cities with the highest number of Road Crash Deaths (Rank –Wise):

Delhi (City), Chennai, Jaipur, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Kanpur, Lucknow, Agra, Hyderabad, Pune.

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Pollution

A recent air quality monitoring survey by Greenpeace  has found that Delhi’s air is the most toxic in the world due to high concentrations of PM2.5 that is believed to pose the greatest health risk because it penetrates deeply into lungs.

The deadly PM2.5 levels in the capital are 10 times higher than the safety limit prescribed by the World Health Organization (WHO), and four times higher than even the Indian safety limit.

According to CSE (center for science & Environment) Only in Delhi Daily more than 1,15,000 KG CO2 being created.

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Time & Cost

According to CSE(center for science & Environment) the average speed of any vehicle(car/bikes) in peak hours is less than a bicycle that is less than 5km/hr.

The study has mentions buses are the mo

st popular means of road transport catering to about 60% of Delhi's total demand.

The study has mentions public Transportation are the most popular means of road transport catering to about 70% of total demand.

The study say in Mumbai the people who is doing daily up and down for their job are spending their 40% of time just in travelling.

around 40% people have their own vehicles but due to the fuel and maintenance cost they are keeping their vehicle at home and using public transportation

Solution

To tackle such daily travelling issues there is only major solution and That is 'Chalein Ride Sharing services' 

1 Less vehicle on the road means less Traffic, less accidents, less pollution, less travel cost