Car Sharing

Car sharing simply means taking one or more passengers with you in your own car, or joining other people in their car.

Car sharing is a sociable way to cut the cost of travel and reduce traffic queues and congestion while keeping the convenience and flexibility of a door-to-door car journey. It can work particularly well for people in more rural areas without frequent public transport services.

There are over 400 million empty vehicle seats on the UK’s roads each year. If everyone who drives a car on their own to work every day were to catch a lift with someone just once a week, commuting car journeys would reduce by 20%. As passengers share the petrol and parking costs, it can cut the cost of the journey by at least a half – even more if you share with more than one person.

Sometimes you can find a suitable car share partner by asking around friends, colleagues and neighbours. If not, Somerset County Council provides a free, online car share matching service called Car Share Somerset. There are over 2000 people signed up to share lifts to and from hundreds of destinations in and around Somerset.

Sign up to find your match today at www.carsharesomerset.com

The service is absolutely free to use and makes lift sharing simple. All you need to do is complete a few details about yourself and your journey and the system will look for possible matches.  

Car Share Case Studies