Carpooling potential in Switzerland

This presentation reports on a project that aimed at finding out the potential of carpoo-ling in Switzerland. The project was financed by the Swiss Federal Roads Authority (AST-RA) and conducted together with the firms PTV Swiss and Rundum Mobil. The project was composed of two main work packages. On the one hand an extensive survey on mo-bility behavior and the attitude toward carpooling was conducted. On the other hand a simulation tool was used to estimate how many pools it would be possible to create un-der the given boundaries. Thanks to this it has been possible to consider both objective and subjective aspects of carpooling. The survey was composed of multi-response quali-tative questions and stated preference exercises. The results of the latter were used to generate a behavioral model that was embedded in the simulation. The presentation reports on both parts of the survey.