Commuter matching algorithm
How the Faxi route matching algorithm and the emergence of driverless cars will impact corporate commuting.
Faxi have develeoped an intelligent commuter matching algorithm (patents approved and applied for) which connects corporate commuters based on multiple optimal routes and preferred travel time, ensuring the employees of organisations adopting our technology can connect and build relationships with people who share their routes to work.
We have used this innovative technology to show that, in large, single site organisations, the carpooling opportunities, and the asscoiated savings to the commuters, their employers and the environment, are huge.
After analysing over 15,000 commuter journeys to employer locations across the country we have identified that, in organisations over 500 employees, more than 90% of the staff could be transported by around 25% of the total workforce. Assuming a driver can take three passengers, this figure might stand to reason, but the remarkable fact is that this very high coverage takes into account arrival time preferences and results in an average of only seven minutes additional journey time per driver!
Furthermore, we found the extent of car-pooling opportunities across the country means that, on average, each employee has over 50 car-pool partners requiring less than five minutes route deviation to choose from, even when arrival time preference is taken into account.
In a country like the UK, where 15.3m commuters drive their car to work every day (RAC Foundation, 2013), in large organisations Faxi’s technology could remove three out of every four of these car journeys which are not currently shared. However, this gets even more exciting when we extrapolate this out to the arrival of autonomous cars.
Driverless cars are coming, Uber know it, Honda know it, Toyota know it, Ford know it, every major car company and a bunch of other technology companies besides all know it. They are all rushing to be the first to get their driverless cars on the road, and start grabbing market share, in what will be the biggest technological land grab since the mobile phone revolutionised communication.
What everyone recognises is that IF we can crack multi-occupancy mobility, autonomous cars present a very real potential solution to the crippling congestion facing most cities around the world today, but only if we can solve the historical reluctance to travel with others.
We believe we are cracking this problem, we are driving commuter behaviour to make enormous savings today and solve congestion tomorrow.