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You might be naive to think that car-sharing divides the footprint per person by 2. But in reality, a study carried out in the Île-de-France regionshows that the reductions are more in the region of 20%... before rebound effects, which reduce the final gain from carpooling to just 6%.
Notes
See The Conversation article Under what conditions will car sharing be a sustainable mode of transport?
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- 20%
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