Car Sharing Management Systems and Applications

Carpooling is that the sharing of automobile journeys in order that more than one person travels in car. Carpooling reduces every person’s travel prices like fuel prices, tolls, and the stress of driving. Carpooling is one of the methodologies that can be easily introduced and can help to resolve a variety of issues that ranging from energy demands and traffic jam to environmental pollution. Authorities usually encourage carpooling, especially during high fuel costs. We determine to create an android application that will able the people to know if vehicles are feasible for car sharing in their desired path they will sign up for it. This will able the people to use this application to share expense, not worry about hiring a cab and creating new connections.

Car Sharing Systems

The first shared used vehicles system is detected back to 1948 in the city of Zurich (Switzerland), motivated by economic reasons, within the following years other try of public car-sharing systems were not made. In the Eighties, several successful carpooling programs were started, with a consolidation in the early Nineties, thanks to a new awareness of the citizens and a real burst because of additional pervasive diffusion of ICT and mobile services in 2000s.

Carpooling develops mobility for community members to achieve destinations otherwise inaccessible by public transit, walking or biking, whereas increasing the citizens’ awareness about the social and environmental impact of using private vehicles.

Currently, some huge companies begin to exist Worldwide, as Zipcar with over 900,000 members and 11,000 vehicles and Car2Go with 2,000,000 members and 14,000 cars in several countries, together with China. So the market is growing quick and with this increasing demand also the demand of better understanding and management of the system will increase.

A Few Examples of Carpool Systems

A BlaBlaCar is the world's largest long-distance ridesharing community. It is planned in December 2003 by FrédéricMazzella, and established in 2006. BlaBlaCar connects drivers and passengers willing to travel among between cities and share the cost of the journey. BlaBlaCar has more than twenty million members across nineteen countries. Members should register and make a private online profile by social network verification, and rate of response. The disadvantage of this application is that it only offers inter-city carpooling choices which our application aims to rectify and add intra-city travel choices too.

FolksVagn offers a community-based system that helps people share cars with other people. Whereas the passengers get rides at fare much cheaper than a regular taxi service, the car owner gets a share of the fare.

Conclusion

In conclusion, such systems are specially designed for those who need to travel daily from one place to another. In this approach, one should pay a huge amount of petrol daily by their vehicle and price become huge for a person. Here a ton of problems, but the most important problem is pollution that increases day by day and making us weak and unhealthy. Such applications are used to share car to those people who go to the same route but have a lot of space empty in their car which is not used and they need to utilize that need to free some pressure from the pocket expense too. In fact, car-sharing isn’t a matter of business or fleet optimization, but makes a complex system made by different actors, including citizens, public authorities and companies.