Sustainable mobility is not dragging its heels and is making the most of this sweeping movement. So many of these applications allow people to facilitate their relationship with sustainable transport. Whereas until now, car pooling may have appeared quite a complicated means of transport for its users, the comuto application now offers to simplify the process. Comuto instantaneously puts those drivers and passengers wishing to make the same journey in touch with each other; it is immediately effective for its users, for trips of any distance.
As forAllBikesNow , it is able to identify the availability of bicycles or parking spaces for them in all the cities such as Paris, Brussels or Dublin that have a self-service bicycle hire system. Access to the service is simplified for the user though its cartographic and location functions, which allow for real-time visualisation.
Less restrictive public transport
Public transport has also seized upon this innovation. In April, the SNCF is thus launching the Compagnon (Companion, in English), an application which can inform the traveller at every stage of their journey: departure and arrival times of the train, journey reference number, services available at the stations and even the platform number and directions to quickly find the right platform through a dedicated Widget. When on board, the itinerary lets you follow the towns the train goes through in real time. On arrival, the last module indicates which means of transport (bus, underground, taxi, Vélib...) and shops are available at the station.
The user is no longer powerless before public transport and can now think ahead. The RATP is thus the first transport company to bring flashcodes into general use, with an application that is directly linked to its transport services. Launched in January, the technology allows the traveller, if they have a compatible telephone, to read the flashcode of the point at which they have stopped their journey and to thus directly obtain on their mobile, free of charge and in real time, the timetables for the next two buses or tramways travelling onwards. These mobile applications are making sustainable mobility more accessible for the user, who becomes the protagonist of their journey.
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