CarpoolingMX

Inspiration

I start using one of the most journeyed roads on Mexico Toluca- D.F., where 150,000 vehicles hit the road every day and a big percentage of them are only used to transport one person per car and most of them going for the same areas. When I started to do this journeys on my mind there was a couple of concerns….. • The amount of pollution generated due to the huge amount of cars. • Too much waste of money (gas, wear of tires, engine, brakes), most of them just for 1 person. • The big traffic jams caused for that huge amount of vehicles transiting at the same time to the same places. So I decided to not be part of the numbers be part of the solution, and I start posting on a every Facebook group page I know or community that I have room on my car and the route I take. The response was incredible, I started to be contacted to know my point of origin and more specifications on my route, also to know if I could make a little change on my route to fit on the ride. Currently I have a group of new “friends” who are making the everyday Journey with me I pick them up on different sites on my route and get off later on without affecting my route and times. This is pulling me to search to improve my ways to reach more people who want to go on mi ride and more important looking for more people who want and are able to do de same I do, but challenges are huge, Safety, timing, logistics, resourses are some of the subjects that cares a lot to me and that I´m working on. The base of the project its running the tests are successful, the idea it´s clear, how to build it´s clear too, Goal it´s set up, now I´m looking for the team who help me to reach the targets!!

What it does

• I´m not spoiling it jet, hang on for more details…..

How I built it

• On Process…..

Challenges I ran into

• Looking for developers. • Safety Issues. • Insurance. • Administrative issues.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

1. 2 Weeks runing program 1 car, from 1 person per car to 2 or 3 persons per ride, making the car up to 300% more eficient than before.
2. Campaign reached 50 persons.

What I learned

• Need to assure more security for the riders, at the end I didn´t know them and they didn´t know me, the advertisements could had been scams to assault or rob people, this kind of thigs its on what I´m working on. • Routes or plans might have to change and need to be flexible to do it in order to be able to have more travelers on the same car. • Punctuality and responsibility and subjects that can’t be putted aside, in order for this to work you have to be aware that others times are counting and jobs, kids, and other situations are depending on your liability.

What's next for CarpoolngMX

Looking for sponsors to have more, better, safer and if it´s possible bigger cars to transport more people and start to reach and convince more people to be on the program. Currently I managed to have success on 6% on the people my advertisement reached so if my target is to reach 150,000 users of vehicles of this road that mean 9,000 people that means assuming they all used 1 car per person that it´s the most ordinary way, we will reduce 5% of vehicles that might not sound much but that means 6,750 cars that mean that taking in mind their average journey its 80 KM per day at 10K/L will be saved 54,000Lts of gas translate that to pollution avoided. That is what carpoolingMX it´s looking to be saved next.