MEGA CARPOOLING might just transform highway-turned-parking lots back to functioning streets by decreasing the number of cars on the road. Delhi’s traffic is taking an ugly turn. Everyone wants to own a car, or everyone is affluent and doing well enough to afford one. Delhi has the highest number of cars being rolled out on the roads daily and the ever-deteriorating old roads are not able to handle this influx of vehicles, leading to haphazard and chaotic traffic.

There is no road sense prevailing in the city and the rush hour and peak hour traffic seems to last for the entire day. There is no hour of the day when the road is partially empty and the air is free from intoxicants that are generously released into the air through the exhausts of the cars that run on adulterated fuel. Life has become a menace on these roads. As a nation, we have reached a point where alternatives to driving have become a necessity. As families get squeezed by higher inflation, the need to offset this with conservation has become evident. The best way to conserve gas is to share the price with someone else. It’s our responsibility to abide by the traffic rules and regulations and see to it that they come up with innovative solutions to tackle this menace “traffic” by carpooling.

One of the major benefits of carpooling is that it saves money. Owning a private vehicle, while very convenient, has many attached costs -- monthly payments, gasoline, oil changes and maintenance, parking, and insurance. Carpooling spreads those costs among several people instead of having one person shoulder the burden. Carpooling takes more cars off the road. This might seem counterintuitive when companies place vehicles all over town, but it's true.

As you can probably imagine, the idea of fewer people sitting behind the wheel of a car has quite a few benefits. For one, it helps reduce traffic congestion and wear and tear on the roads. It decreases air pollution and energy dependency. Furthermore, as time passes, people hope the level of urban carpooling will tip the scales so less parking infrastructure and road expansions will be needed. This could mean that more resources are reserved for developing parks and urban green spaces. Other benefits may include a healthier society and a higher quality life. There will be a huge saving of money and fuel for the nation through the optimisation of road and infrastructure use, efficient management practices and the emergence of alternatives to fuel-guzzling mobility modes.

Carpooling can be convenient for people in other ways too. It’s a new way of looking at and solving transportation problems. Carpooling enables people to move safely and efficiently with the help of proper and organised infrastructure of an intelligent transportation system.

Where is not only about the carpooling alone but other aspects are also available like Mega Carpool’s slim ‘My Screen’ features where traffic updates to simply avoid traffic congestion, vehicle tracking as anti-theft device, information of one-way segments and not only all this but safety device like panic button in case of emergency and be connected at all time through mega services.