Detailed description (English): FAXI is a smartphone app and online platform which enables people in communities to connect with those who share the same route and then verify, in real time, their sustainable travel.
We are proud to partner with Toyota Financial Services (Toyota FS) as the first partner for this service. We have cloned the Faxi platform and Toyota branded it to provide incentivised carpooling for Germany. The new platform, Toyota FS Carpooling, will sell carpooling software in Germany to major employers.
Research suggests that nearly half of people would journey share with someone they know, yet millions of people travel each day with empty seats. Faxi believes that sharing is caring, and can help reduce congestion, pollution, and save people money and time while providing safer and more efficient travel.
We approach large organisations to implement our platform to create private transport networks that allow staff to connect with who they can sustainably travel with, and then they can share their journey data in return for incentives. By doing this, employers can reward those who can verify their sustainable travel such as carpooling, cycling or walking.
We successfully implemented this technology at a number of sites, including Northamptonshire County Council. In just over 6 months, the community completed 5,600 driven journeys and 11,060 passenger journeys totalling 68,553 passenger miles. Removing 11k cars from Northampton roads at rush hour saved 28.35 tonnes of CO2 assuming all passengers would otherwise have driven and taking an average vehicle CO2 per kilometre figure. All this data was verified through users voluntarily sharing journeys in return for on-site parking.
During this time, the platform processed 2,521 passenger to driver payments and 12,950 parking payments with a value totalling over £28k.
This is just one of the thousands of communities set up worldwide, and we think every large organisation could benefit from private carpooling networks.
Target group(s): Large Organisations
Hospitals
Councils
Governments
Airports
Large Offices
Business Parks
Expected Outcomes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxXoX4rTbrE
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Partner: Toyota Financial Services