ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to facilitate the acquisition of a full awareness about the benefits of new forms of sustainable mobility, encouraged by an increasingly extensive and widespread use of technology. It also aims to provide an empirical evidence of the real reasons inducing consumers to use alternative “smart” journey systems and, more specifically, carpooling. The chapter seeks to highlight whether, in addition to money saving, the rising success of this phenomenon is linkable to other reasons, such as environmental protection, desire to socialize, curiosity, comfort in travelling, etc. It analyzes the summary sheet provided by the Information Technology tool, interpreting results in an effort to define a kind of ranking of the reasons for which people resort to carpooling. The chapter offers some interesting insights for future research on carpooling, suggesting deepening, and the primary role that nowadays smart technologies hold in any socio-economic context and, the reasons pushing people to use more and more often alternative journey systems.
