PisaPool / MIT Senseable City Lab

9 km
: Average trip length

1,000+ ton/day
: CO2 Reduction

Low traffic High traffic

Traffic Intensity with Car Pooling

15 km
: Average trip length

Low traffic High traffic

Traffic Intensity Current Situation

Sharing our way to work can substantially help reduce carbon footprint and progress towards
a more sustainable future.

Sharing mobility has been changing the way people move in cities. Instead of being ownership based, urban mobility is becoming usership based, with apps creating synergetic relationships between drivers and passengers. In PisaPool, we show how the traffic footprint of home-work commuting in the historic Pisa, Italy, can be reduced thanks to carpooling - saving time drivers spend on traffic, and reducing emissions.

CNR

PAM

S.Chiara

The graphs illustrate the fraction of the trips within a given distance from the working place performed to reach some of the main destinations in Pisa: Polo di Attività Montacchiello (PAM), CNR and Santa Chiara areas. The graphs also shows how the Global Traffic Footprint (GTF) could be reduced through voluntary and optimistic levels of carpooling.

Optimistic Pooling

Voluntary Pooling

No Pooling

MobilitandoPisa surveyed 6,200 morning commuters in Pisa, Italy, in 2016. The workplaces are highlighted in blue and the traffic level is depicted in red, with the color intensity proportional to the traffic level. In the current situation, carpooling is virtually inexistent in Pisa.

Team

Project Lead
Paolo Santi
IIT CNR & Senseable City Lab

M.Elena Renda
IIT CNR & MIT JTL

Senseable City Lab :.::

Director
Carlo Ratti

Concept and Design
Fábio Duarte

Web and Visualization
Hyemi Song

IIT CNR

Data collection and analysis
Federico Librino
Giovanni Resta
Francesca Martelli

KDD Lab and ISTI CNR

Backend design
Salvatore Rinzivillo

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