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Blablacar invents and launches an app that can transform your local commute.

Blablacar invents and launches an app that can transform your local commute.

Blablacar launches Zen, a new application that focuses on short or medium carpooling trips. Unlike classic trips on Blablacar, this concept promotes door-to-door travel by adapting timetables and offering high but competitive prices, especially in rural or underserved areas. The aim is to expand the offer and meet the needs that are not covered by public transport or VTC.

Blablacar launched a new ApplicationApplication Carpooling is dedicated to short and medium distances, more expensive, but more flexible than regular travel. These trips, ranging from 30 to 100 km, to the station, to shopping or to the beach, were not very present on the platform. Because we have difficulty in blocking the schedule. “, its P.-DG, Nicolas Burson, explained during an interview with AFP.

On this application called “Zen”, drivers and passengers register their scheduled trips with flexible schedules. The application then sends carpooling suggestions to all drivers whose routes are compatible, prioritizing those for whom the detour is the least inconvenient.

Flexible travel and personal carpooling

After several months of testing around the Bay of Morbihan and Grenoble, in particular, the Zen is available from Thursday 6 December in 10 regions including the Côte d’Ivoire (in Normandy), Pays Nantes, Landes-Côte, Medoc, Basque Country. Malik, Herault and Western Province.

For the driver to agree to make this round, the passenger’s part is more than a long journey: he reserves all the available seats in the car together. However, the rate must remain below the mileage scale set by the state for professional expenses, i.e. around 0.60 euros per kilometer. The trip from Venez to Quiberon (about an hour’s journey) is estimated at 35 euros per zine.

More offers on short trips

The idea is to have more frequency on shorter trips, with another promise, that is. PortPort– The doors “, emphasized Nicolas Burson.

This will allow you to find kilometers (travelled by users) who were not on the platform until now. [et d’] Increase the frequency of use of our existing customers »explained Blablacar’s leader. The platform was already interested in short distances, but only on domestic work trips, supported by businesses and communities.

Is Zayn coming to take on the already angry VTCs and taxis? According to Nicolas Burson, the offer will work particularly well in SNCF stations and sparsely populated areas, where the last part of the journey is complicated by public transport, and taxis and VTCs are not widely available.

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