Top 10 cities that carpool the most in 2022

Carpooling trips are constantly developing in France.

With the explosion of fuel prices, motorists are increasingly using shared routes. It is in this particular context that the National Observatory of Daily Carpooling and Klaxit, a French company specializing in this field, are publishing the results of a study.

“Consider carpooling”. It is now, according to the Climate and Resilience law, one of the 3 mandatory messages to be mentioned under each car advertisement. An increasingly common practice that some cities intend to take advantage of. When some financially encourage their inhabitants to carpool (Angers, Nantes, Rouen, etc.), others reserve lanes for vehicles with several passengers on board. Who pulls out of the game? The results of a study conducted in February 2022 by the National Observatory of Daily Carpooling and Klaxit, a French company specializing in this field, shed some light.

blablacar carpooling app — There are more than 20 players in the carpooling industry, some with their own application.

Savings for the environment

The National Daily Carpooling Observatory lists overall statistics year after year. Thus, for the month of February 2022, 182,861 vehicles were used for carpooling. This represents 250 136 passengers transported for approximately 6 million kilometers traveled.

oil well penumbra blue sky — 1,151.98 tons of CO2 were saved thanks to carpooling in France in February 2022.

The environment can rejoice in the 376,000 liters of oil and 1,151.98 tonnes of CO₂ saved. Figures that have not yet returned to their 2020 level. That year, in February, 401,010 passengers had been transported throughout France thanks to 310,356 vehicles, or 9.5 million kilometers traveled. By way of comparison, in February 2021, with the covid-19 crisis, there were only 54,905 passengers transported in France. Note that 20 partner operators participated in the collection of additional data for each region and several cities. Klaxit, the European leader in this field, has alone recorded 44% of these journeys at national level, and thus publishes a ranking, all operators combined.

Rouen, the best of the others

paris view from the top of defense — Île-de-France is still far ahead of other regions in terms of carpooling.

To start, this ranking excludes Paris and Île-de-France, which remain far ahead of the rest of France with 143,169 carpooling trips counted in February 2022 (i.e. 57% of the total). No wonder since Ile-de-France Mobilités has been subsidizing carpooling since October 2017. Klaxit repeats this in its press release: “ without financial incentive, no acting out or regular carpooling. And when that incentive stops, the carpooling stops “.

First place therefore goes to the city of Rouen, which has been advocating carpooling for a long time. It alone accounts for 11,766 shared journeys in the month of February. We then find Angers which has accumulated almost 8,000 carpools when Montpellier comes in at 3^and space with 7,396 carpools counted. It is followed by Nantes, capital of the Pays de la Loire region. The latter also finishes in a solid second position of the regions in the ranking (not counting the Paris region), accumulating 5,000 more trips than Occitanie, third.

Lagging metropolises

highway cars lyon — Lyon is one of the disappointments with only 3,575 carpooling trips in February 2022.

Among the “bad” surprises, we observe that Lyon and Marseille, second and third cities of France, find themselves respectively 9^and and 10^andof the rank of the French start-up. For example, the city of Beauvais has more carpooling trips by being no less than 25 times smaller. Bordeaux, Lille, Nice, Strasbourg, Rennes and Grenoble, which are nevertheless part of the Top 10 of French cities, are also absent from the ranking. ” Registrants in territories without a contract with the community will be dormant registrants who do not carpool and cannot be monetized », declared Julien Honnart, President and co-founder of Klaxit. On good terms?

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Cities carpooling the most (February 2022)

Ranking	Town	Carpooling trips
1	Rouen	11,766
2	Angers	7,968
3	Montpellier	7,396
4	Nantes	7,335
5	Toulouse	6,996
6	Annecy	6,331
7	Metz	5,371
8	Beauvais	4,160
9	Lyons	3,575
10	Marseilles	3,001

Regions carpooling the most (February 2022)

Ranking	Town
1	Ile-de-France
2	Pays de la Loire
3	Occitania
4	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
5	Normandy
6	Great East
7	Hauts-de-France
8	Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
9	New Aquitaine
10	Brittany
11	Centre-Loire Valley
12	Burgundy-Franche-Comte
13	Corsica