Is Shared Mobility being the best way to travel cheaply

 

In today’s changing world people need easier and cheaper modes of transportation. These transportation facilities may include Railways, Buses, Flights, Rental Cars, Metros, Ships and many others. These all facilities are available to each and every normal person. In case of absence of these facilities the transportation would have been very hard and expensive. Everything from Carpooling to travelling in ships can be included under Shared mobility.

In India alone, there is 67,956 km of tracks of railways which makes Indian railways the 4^th Biggest Railways in the world. Railways are very helpful for poor people as they provide them cheap mode of transportation. The passenger traffic in the railway sector amounted to over eight billion across India in fiscal year 2020. Passenger rail traffic from India's suburbs was much higher than the non-suburban rail traffic. Overall, the railway network transported over 22 million passengers every day.

This not only provides a cheaper and easier mode of transportation but also saves environment. Whenever a person decides to use any public transport, it could be bus, train, metro or even carpooling at the same time he/she contributes to environment. If it weren’t for the public transport then the number of bikes and mopeds on the roads will increase not by percentage but by times and to make things worse private transporters would be way expensive for poor to afford. This is a great step towards decreasing Pollution all over the globe.

Some impacts of shared mobility include enhanced transportation accessibility as well as reduced driving and decreased personal vehicle ownership. These programs often yield a variety of environmental, social, and transportation system benefits. More people that share vehicles, and take different modes of transport e.g. bikes, buses, will equal less CO2 emissions. This has a roll-on effect of less damage done to our roads, and more people connecting to alternative modes of transport.

Shared Mobility has proven to be an effective form of transportation, not only it covers maximum number of travelers but also proves to be a way to boost the economy. When people travel, they tend to do expenditure at public transportation or for their personal use, either way they do spend money and thus boosting the area’s economy if people won’t spend or invest their money then it would have negative impacts on the economy. In other words, shared mobility motivates public to travel and in doing so to spend and this expenditure helps to boost the economy.