New ride-sharing-platform online in 35 European countries

Salzburg (OTS) - In line with the slogan "we bring europe
together" the new ride-sharing-platform http://www.autostopp.net went
online today in 35 European countries. Drivers and passengers can
find each other to organize carpools. This absolutly FREE OF CHARGE!
Everybody can make a contribution to the protection of our
environment, share costs and meet new and interesting people by
riding in a carpool.

As Ludwig Hofmann, Managing Director of autostopp.net Gmbh in
Salzburg, Austria, points out, car pools are the solution to three
main problems of our modern society:

3 Problems - 3 Solutions

Even with rising environmental awareness and climate programs the
pollution of the environment is still going on. Every avoided ride
reduces the pollution of carbondioxide and helps to improve our air
and our habitat.

Rising petrol prices leave less and less money in the purses of
mobile people. Drivers can reduce their costs by getting a
contribution fee from passengers while they can reduce costs in
avoiding other expensive means of transportation.

Our society becomes more and more virtual. Everbody knows weblogs,
forums or chatrooms, and to make an appointment for lunch with our
office colleages we send emails. A direct conversation almost does
not take place anymore. Riding in a carpool brings you back to direct
speech, "face to face" and brings you away from only exchanging data
with computers.

Less pollution - Cost savings - More Communication

The idea of carpools is not new but increasingly necessary in our
modern and mobile times. More and more people become more and more
mobile and waste more and more ressources in doing so. A look to our
streets shows that too many cars are driven by one single person.
Approximately 30 kilograms of carbondioxide pollution are avoided by
riding in a carpool over a distance of 300 kilometer. Every passenger
is avoiding this by not riding his own car.
easy calculation: more persons per car = less cars = less pollution

The second advantage of carpools is the cost sharing. High raw
material prices leave less and less money in the purses of people,
but no one wants to reduce the mobility we are used to, whether as a
student driving home or a commuter driving to work every day. So how
to find a win-win situation? The solution is carpools.
easy calculation: more persons per car = less euro per km = more
savings for everybody

Last but not least, personal and direct communication is the third
advantage of carpools. Even if the users get in touch by an
online-platform they soon leave this virtual reality and get in
direct contact. Carpools can not avoid virtual isolation but can help
to meet some interesting people at a journey or a ride to work.
easy final calculation: more persons per car = more communication

http://www.autostopp.net is exclusively financed through online
advertisment and by selling the technology to other
internet-platforms and websites. For example, Tyrol, a western
province of Austria, has integrated http://www.fahrmit.org (the
Austrian version of http://www.autostopp.net) into its internet
presence http://www.tirol.gv.at. With the aim to support their local
commuters in organizing carpools.

Photos: http://at.autostopp.net/index.php?bodywork=news&id=28

Rückfragehinweis:
autostopp.net GmbH
Ing. Mag. Ludwig H. Hofmann
Managing Director
Tel: +43 664 519 5950
mailto:ludwig.hofmann@autostopp.net
Web: http://www.autostopp.net

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