A\u00a0carpooling pilot,\u00a0uGoMyWay, has been launched through Accelerate Cape Town (ACT) in an attempt to ease the chronic traffic in Cape Town’s CBD.<\/p>\n
Together with a few of its corporate members based in the CBD, ACT has partnered with locally designed, built and maintained mobile app\u00a0uGoMyWay<\/a>, to remove excess cars from the roads.<\/p>\n The need for the pilot project is underlined by the results of the latest Tom Tom Traffic Index, which shows that Cape Town has the most congested roads in South Africa. The index also showed that 79% of cars entering the CBD are single occupancy vehicles.<\/p>\n Available on iOS and Android, the app enables users to create routine journeys such as, home-to-work or home-to-school. Matches are then ranked and a chat function allows users to establish a dialogue before personal details are exchanged.<\/p>\n Once this has taken place, users decide who will drive and what the shared costs will be. As an additional safety measure, users can also request to be a part of a ring-fenced community, which includes only members of their specific workplace or school.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n Payment is handled through the app and settled on a monthly basis. The current recommended rate per kilometre is R1 and the distances are calculated automatically through the geo-location software of the app.<\/p>\n
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