All together, all together… This Thursday, the president of Ile-de-France Mobilités (IDFM), Valérie Pécresse, announced that she wanted to launch twelve carpooling lines in the region in early 2025, while maintaining a mileage allowance that could bring in up to 150 euros per month to drivers.
With the creation of the network, financed to the tune of 26 million euros by IDFM, Valérie Pécresse intends to “break with the territorial inequalities which still undermine Ile-de-France” and “make the people of Greater Paris the big winners of the carpooling,” she said during the IDFM carpooling conference.
Three lines already drawn on the Saclay plateau
Because according to the regional president, certain residents of the outer suburbs who have remained away from the urban network “will never have any other choice but to take the car”. According to IDFM, nearly 80% of the two million subsidized journeys in 2023 concern the outer suburbs. The carpooling support system put in place by IDFM since 2017 provides for “a mileage allowance per journey between 1.5 and 3 euros per passenger depending on the distance traveled” under a ceiling of 150 euros per month, recalls the carpooling authority. transport. Navigo pass subscribers benefit from two free journeys per day up to thirty kilometers.
Three first lines have already been drawn on the Saclay plateau, whose technological and scientific center between Essonne and Yvelines means “lots of cars” but also “powerful feeder stations” for multimodal, underlined Valérie Pécresse.
One online platform to rule them all
IDFM will set up a single platform which will centralize those used until now (Blablacar, Ynstant, Karos and Klaxit), in particular to put an end to “fraud that is still too significant because with four platforms”, drivers could “declare four journeys” , she argued.
The operator operating these future lines will be appointed in the fall of 2024, “with the objective of putting the lines into service at the beginning of 2025”, specifies IDFM. “It’s good for the planet, good for the wallet and good for saving time,” summarized Valérie Pécresse about carpooling.
The government confirmed on Thursday the renewal for 2024 of the 100 euro carpooling bonus launched at the start of 2023, but which will now focus on short journeys, with the objective of reaching three million daily journeys by 2027.