Carpooling: Benefits, Disadvantages, and Environmental Impact Analysis

This report analyzes the benefits of carpooling as a solution to environmental and traffic problems. It highlights the economic advantages, such as cost savings and reduced gasoline consumption, and discusses the environmental benefits of decreased pollution. The report also addresses potential disadvantages, including scheduling challenges, privacy concerns, and trust issues. It compares carpooling to other modes of transportation, such as walking, biking, and personal cars, emphasizing its time and cost efficiency. The report includes references to support the claims and provides a comprehensive overview of carpooling's impact and implications.

Why Opt For Carpooling?
Most of the countries are concerned about the harm to the environment
causing by the use of personal cars. The management of the traffic is also
big issue to most of the countries. In the midst of this mess, some countrie
have come with a solution to this never-ending problem. They are
encouraging people to go for carpooling instead of having personal cars. H
are some points, which are noteworthy. These points can explain people, w
is it cool to go for a carpool?
Carpooling is Pocket Priendly!
Carpooling helps the customers to save money as well as time. Expert consider
carpooling is also good for the environment.
Carpool Saves Excess use of Gasoline
Everybody of us is aware of the limit of natural sources that form gasoline. When a
person opt for carpooling, he or she does not need to user personal cars. This aids
prevention of car excess use of gasoline. This is again a cool advantage of carpooli
Moreover, use of carpooling lessens the air pollution that occur due to the excessiv
usage of personal cars.
Get Rid of Maintenance Cost
Wanna get rid of the maintenance cost of your personal car? Carpooling is there to
you. People who choose for a carpooling do not have to worry about the huge expe
for the maintenance of his or her own car.
There may be a few disadvantages of carpooling. But you should always estima
what are your gaining by giving up a little:
ü There will be several people in the car for which a person may face problem
schedule his or her activities.
ü The existence of various people may lead to adjustment problem
ü People may feel that they are not getting enough privacy.
ü Some people may not trust drivers. There may be cases in which the drivers
not prove trustworthy too. The re are incidents in which the driver may prove
irresponsible and may become the cause of accidents.
ü The carpooling business gives the driver freedom to choose his or her workin
hours which may not match withn the working hours of a office goer or college
student.
If Carpooling is compared with all other ways of travelling, we may find that
Compared to walking and biking carpooling consumes less time and money respectively
Compared to personal cars it saves fuel and other cost of maintenance
A pool car will give you the luxury of reading talking over phone while travelling, which is
not possible when you drive.
References
Parking (2019). BENEFITS OF CARPOOLING. [online] Parking. Available at:
https://www.uottawa.ca/parking/carpooling/benefits-of-carpooling [Accessed 10
Apr. 2019].
PlanetSave, G. (2019). Five Unexpected Benefits of Carpooling | How to Reduce Your
Carbon Footprint. [online] PlanetSave. Available at:
https://planetsave.com/2012/11/08/five-unexpected-benefits-of-carpooling-
how-to-reduce-your-carbon-footprint/ [Accessed 10 Apr. 2019].