“We’re seeing a steady growth of activity on the platform. It is also connected with the growing trend in domestic tourism”, – says marketing Director of BlaBlaCar in Russia Mikhail Dobrov. In the summer period is traditionally the most popular direction towards the black sea coast and within the Krasnodar region, and this year is no exception, he said.
Carpooling or ridesharing involves the sharing of the private car. The fundamental difference from a taxi is that the driver does not have to earn on travel, it can only cover part of their costs. But this is only a Declaration, carpooling not regulated by any law, for the quality of services are not liable nor drivers, nor the company through which they pick up passengers. The Ministry of transport has developed a draft law. Now it is being further developed to meet all the incoming comments and proposals, explained “RG” in the Ministry.
Meanwhile, carpooling goes on his way. To organize a joint trip by car in one form or another now offer at least a dozen services. Among them, for example, inDriver, “let’s Go.RF”, Poputti.com, DubleWay, Bamblio and several others. According to the Russian Association for electronic communications (RAEC), in 2019, there were 35.1 million trips,while the volume of transactions amounted to 17.8 billion rubles. In connection with the epidemic of Russians as a whole have sharply reduced mobility, said in an interview with “RG” the head of a cluster RAEC Anton Publican.
“given the fact that the joint visits have earned only in mid-June, and then only with restrictions, we do not expect a recovery in demand in the coming months,” he says. However, the level of co trips can reach pre-crisis level in the autumn, said the head of Department of complex development of Institute of road transport Tatiana Mikheeva. And to stimulate interest in carpooling and push the development of this sector might just pandemic.
first, the borders are closed, has to be limited to domestic destinations. Carpooling convenient for relatively short journeys within the country. Secondly, from the point of view of the risk of catching the infection carpooling much safer than planes and trains. Thirdly, the sharing services more economically, lists Publican.
the Cost of travel with carpooling several times less than the cab ride. Carpooling of Russia serves as an alternative to inter-municipal bus transport, which do not always meet the quality standards, Mikheev adds.
of Travel companions even offer ad hoc services in the form of the usual message boards. There are also non-classical as well as inDriver that do not position themselves as the carpLing, but in fact provide such services, says Mikheev. A representative of the service said in an interview with “RG” that “inDriver no joint visits”.
However illegal such services can not be called because, again, of the law on carpooling no. In the grey area, rather, are the owners of large buses who are also looking for clients with the same services carpooling. “They declare themselves four-seater passenger car. And at the point of departure is that the bus collects passengers”, – says Mikheev.
