Petrol and kilometres, going to work costs up to 3,000 euros a year. The record in Liguria
Long journeys (in Liguria the average is 47 kilometres) and skyrocketing petrol prices: the hard life of the commuter between time spent and expenses
ROME – The expense to be faced daily to cover the journey between home and work or home and university can exert significant financial pressure on commuters, to the point of becoming a cost item that tangibly affects the Monthly wage. Especially considering that, between 2020 and 2024, the costs to refuel your vehicle increased by 27.97% for petrol and 34.85% for diesel. Furthermore, according to an analysis conducted by Jojob Real Time Carpooling, the carpooling service for commuters created with the aim of facilitating home-work and home-university travel, commuters travel up to almost 50 km each way daily to get to work or study, finding themselves faced with fuel costs that can reach 3,000 euros a year in the case of petrol and 2,800 euros for diesel.
The data collected by Jojob’s National Observatory on Corporate Carpooling 2024 have in fact highlighted how, during 2023, the average distance of commuting trips between home and work, or between home and university, was 26.57 km , entailing – for those traveling alone – an annual expense that can weigh on the wallet up to 1,426.28 euros for petrol cars and 1,387.31 euros for diesel ones. But in some Italian regions, both due to territorial conformation and the location of industrial centers more concentrated in extra-urban areas, longer journeys have been recorded.
Liguria holds the record, almost doubling the national figure, with an average of 47.8 km each way. A number motivated by the phenomenon of commuting from the hinterland to the port areas, which effectively forces employees to travel the entire region by car to clock in in the morning. Even in the Marche and Umbria, workers face long journeys every day, with average journeys of 47 km and 39.2 km respectively. Lazio is in fourth place with 37.9 km, followed by Molise (35.6 km), Sicily (33.1 km) and Abruzzo (32.8 km). The shortest routes are those on board cars in Trentino Alto Adige, where the average is 19.8 km per trip.
In the current context, in which historic fuel price records are being recorded, it is therefore increasingly urgent to rely on alternative home/work mobility such ascarpooling proposed by Jojob, which represents an economic and sustainable solution allowing you to share the home-work or home-university journey with other commuters traveling the same route.
Considering that according to Jojob in the last year an average of 2.32 people traveled each way in the same car, this has led to at least halving the costs of annual transport per person. In particular, 3 out of 4 trips (75.6%) are made by a crew of 2 people, therefore driver and passenger, while 18.3% of the cars are made up of 3 colleagues. 5.96% of trips instead have a crew of 4 or 5 people, with a practically full car, and with the possibility of bringing the average annual cost of trips below 300 euros thanks to the division of expenses.
In total, in 2023, users who chose to share their car with colleagues thus saved 986,263 euros, also avoiding the emission of 641,135 kg of CO2 thanks to 212,410 fewer cars in circulation.
“We have been witnessing a sharp increase in fuel costs for some time for geopolitical and speculative reasons – explains Gerard Albertengo, CEO and founder of Jojob – and many Italians have found themselves in the position of having to look for an alternative to cover every day the home/work route and vice versa. Corporate carpooling is no longer just a sustainable choice that denotes environmental awareness, but it is also an economically advantageous choice for all those workers who are tired of traveling long distances every day which has a strong impact on their salary”.< br>Consisting of a web platform and a smartphone app, Jojob Real Time Carpooling allows companies, bodies, organisations, universities and local communities to spread and encourage the use of shared transport and to low environmental impact especially for commuters, through the certification of home-work and home-university carpooling trips Registered users can view colleagues or other citizens who are on the same route or close to a point common starting point and organize themselves to share the journey: for each trip made, they obtain the exact calculation of the CO2 saved and points that can be transformed into discounts and can also divide travel expenses directly in the app, thanks to a system based on MangoPay technology, saving and including travel costs, such as petrol, toll booths and parking.