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The daily displacement Escombreras Cabezo Beaza and center are the most popular this intermediation service provided by the council, but have also been shared routes to Madrid and abroad
The rising price of gasoline, and awareness to environmental pollution by excess vehicles are the main factors that have led many to leave Cartagena parked your car and find ways of saving.
Car sharing and car park are the initiatives launched by the Department of Sustainable Development of the City of Carthage to the one that already has scored a total of 686 people.
This service, which was launched five years ago to join similar initiatives across the country, allows interested parties to register via the Internet and ask if you want to share journeys with other people in the municipality.
The acceptance of citizens to these intermediation services is such that the number of citizens who registered last 2010 was higher than in 2009, which had attracted 603 people.
The latest statistics reveal that during the month of January 2011 Car sharing service was consulted by some 161 users, which is an increase compared to 103 in December 2010, has announced the council's Development sustainable.
The data also show that users have an average age of 37 years in men and 35 women.
Of the total of 686 users participating, 52.6% were offered as drivers while 34.1% do as passengers, and there are more users registered with own car (59.5%) than those who are targeted no car (40.5%).
As the frequency of the trips they share with other people in the municipality, these data argue that the trips are mostly sporadic, with 60.6%, compared to regular routes, which are 39.4% of total .
Most of it is occasional travel (57.1%) or work (28.1%), and less flow are the paths to move to places of study or leisure (3.5%).
The main trips are made in Cartagena.
Workplaces Escombreras Valley, the industrial and Beaza Cabezo the downtown area of the city (Puerta de Murcia and City Hall Square), are the main points that users want to access.
Also move to other parts of the region such as Murcia, Blanca, Cieza, Abarán or Torre Pacheco, and even different cities in Spain, including Madrid, Castellon de la Plana and Zamora.
As a novelty, there has been an application for car share to travel abroad, particularly to Paris.
In addition to this municipal initiative, the Sustainable Development Department also proposes other form of saving, sharing parking.
This service has been during the months of December and January 2011 an average of 60 visits.
This figure puts Cartagena in the top spot on the list of cities that have purchased this car sharing service such as Santander and Palma, among others.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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