| Is carpooling good? | | | | increase once low cost cars like Tata Nano are |
| Its very nice to write something about carpooling. | | | | introduced to the market. Can we imagine traffic on |
| This concept is getting popular day by day as it has | | | | roads after 1 year? Apart from increasing road |
| become need of hour for all of us to share car / van | | | | capacity of handling traffic, we have to start thing |
| / Taxi / Auto or any four wheeler journey to meet | | | | about reducing traffic of the roads too. doing |
| the rising fuel price, traffic congestions and air | | | | efforts in direction of reducing traffic by pooling car |
| pollution. | | | | other travelers. |
| No doubt , Govt of all countries is working very | | | | Normally vehicle's have fuel efficiency of 10 KM/L. If |
| hard to fight against traffic problem by widening | | | | a vehicle runs 20,000 km/year , this means , it will |
| roads and making flyovers but the most important | | | | consume 2000 L fuel in one year. Burning 1 L of |
| two facts which we all need to understand are:- First, | | | | petrol emits 2.5 kg of carbon dioxide. Thus the |
| there is a limit to widening Roads and making | | | | vehicle will emit about 5000 kg of CO2 in one year. |
| flyovers and thereafter we cannot widen roads or | | | | An average mature tree can absorb about 4.5-5 kg |
| make flyovers. Second , there is no limit to increasing | | | | carbon dioxide per year. Thus we need about 1000 |
| vehicles. Delhi is getting roughly 1000 new four | | | | mature trees to absorb the pollution (carbon dioxide) |
| wheelers on road everyday and this number will | | | | emitted by one car. |