In the morning, more than 80% of drivers are alone in their car, according to Vinci

In a dozen French metropolises, more than eight out of ten drivers drive alone in their car between 7 a.m. and 10 a.m., according to a study by road director Vinci published on Tuesday. In 83.3% of the more than 500,000 vehicles observed between May and June 2023 outside school hours using cameras and counts using artificial intelligence, drivers were “alone on board their vehicle,” according to Vinci. The autonomous driving rate peaks at 87% at 8am and drops significantly after 9am, reaching 78% at 10am.

“Despite the growing interest of the French in car sharing, trips between home and work are still too often made alone,” the manager points out in a press release.

The slight drop observed compared to the 85% in autumn 2022 is still “insufficient to reach the government’s goal of 1.75 people on average per vehicle,” explains Vinci. “We should double the number of people sharing rides.” The average is 1.26 people per vehicle, up from 1.24 in fall 2022.

Maximum “single” rate on the A7, A50 and A11

Vinci observed traffic on 18 axes, including the A10 Ile-de-France motorway, where the “one-person” rate is the lowest (74.5%) and is decreasing since the previous study. The figure exceeds 95% on the A7 and A50 in Marseille, as well as on the A11 in Nantes. The A83 in Nantes only has 76% of single drivers. Four sites in the metropolis of Aix-Marseille-Provence (A55, A51, A50 and A7), studied for the first time and with a “self-driving” rate above 93%, were not included in the national average to allow comparison. with previous editions. The rate of drivers alone in their vehicle is higher than the average of ten other cities studied, Vinci says.

Within the framework of ecological planning to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector between now and 2030, the French government is counting, in addition to electric cars, on an explosion of car sharing: while the number of daily car-sharing trips will be 21,000 in 2023, they will have to increase to 196,000 in 2030. The ministries of Ecological Transition, Energy Transition and Transport announced in December that motorists who start car sharing in 2023 could benefit from a bonus of 100 euros, within the framework of a plan valued at 150 million euros in total.