Alix Le Goff ; Martin Koning ; Guillaume Monchambert ; Clément Marchal ; Jean-Baptiste Ray - Promoting urban carpooling: a social cost approach based on the Lyon case study

cst:13086 - Les Cahiers Scientifiques du Transport - Scientific Papers in Transportation, 7 novembre 2025, 84 | 2025 - Varia - https://doi.org/10.46298/cst.13086
Promoting urban carpooling: a social cost approach based on the Lyon case studyArticle

Auteurs : Alix Le Goff ORCID1; Martin Koning ORCID2; Guillaume Monchambert ORCID1; Clément Marchal 3; Jean-Baptiste Ray 3


This paper investigates the impacts of several implementations of daily mobility policies and external shocks on social costs, with a particular focus on carpooling. This social cost is calculated considering consumer's cost, external costs, as well as the expenses and incomes of public authorities and private companies. Four transport modes are considered: solo driver, carpool driver, carpool passenger and public transport. A modal choice model is then applied to trips with 6,287 different origin-destination of the eastern Lyon area. Simulations of time-gain and monetary scenarios are then realized to observe impacts on demand and consequently on the other parameters affecting the social costs. Our results show that consumer's costs explain the majority of the total social cost. Values commonly used for externalities barely impact the social cost in the simulations and traffic reduction measures impact more public and private revenues than they reduce externalities, leading to higher total social costs. Moreover, results illustrate significant variations at the geographical scale, depending on the ODs where the policies are applied. These results suggest implementing daily-carpooling incentives should be decided conscientiously considering the local context.


Volume : 84 | 2025 - Varia
Publié le : 7 novembre 2025
Accepté le : 14 septembre 2025
Soumis le : 20 février 2024
Mots-clés : [SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance, [SPI.GCIV.IT]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Civil Engineering/Infrastructures de transport, [en] Social cost analysis, Transport policies, Carpooling, Daily mobility