At least 50% of workers are willing to change their mobility habits, giving up the private car. And only 20% are reluctant to take public transport. This is what emerges from the “Mobility at the time of Covid” survey, conducted among several hundred employees in Rome, Milan and Palermo by MUV, a socially oriented technological startup that deals with sustainable mobility.
The research, recently published in Wired Italia, carried out during the first Covid-19 emergency, also analyzes the smart working factor and highlights that at least 50% of respondents could continue to work from home (even in a non-exclusive way). In general, it is also clear that, regardless of the distance from work, the propensity to change is towards more sustainable means of transport (walking, cycling, sharing services, company shuttle, carpooling) compared to private cars.
The importance of commuting from home to work and home to school
The workers’ responses to the questionnaires administered by MUV once again underline how important the corporate mobility plan and the planning of the mobility of large communities of citizens (employees of companies and public bodies, students of schools and universities) are in reducing the impact of vehicular traffic on the environment and overall improve the quality of life and sustainability of our cities. With the current Covid-19 emergency, the issue of the health and environmental consequences of the “necessary” home-work and home-school trips has become crucial. Among other things, during the first months of the pandemic, the drafting of the Workplace Travel Plan (PSCL), which is the responsibility of mobility managers, became mandatory for companies with more than 100 employees thanks to the Relaunch decree of 19 May. 2020.
MUV services for the preparation of mobility plans
MUV offers a dedicated service for the production, in less than 4 weeks, of PSCL (home-to-work travel plans), PSCS (home-to-school travel plans) and POLA (agile work operational plans), given the health emergency and the need for urgently develop such plans. This process under “normal” conditions takes between two and three months for the plan to develop. MUV speeds up the process thanks to the data collected anonymously through MUV Game, the app that since 2018, by tracking the daily movements of users, has launched a global challenge in the name of sustainable mobility.
The app that transforms mobility into a sport against climate change
In an era in which we are called to rethink our relationships with cities, MUV has developed a simple, engaging and safe way to generate new motivations and lead to a change of habits in the field of mobility, transforming everyday life into a game, or rather in a sport. Participating is simple: just download the free app available on Google Play and the App Store and start tracking your daily movements. The more sustainable the vehicles, the faster they will climb the rankings. Challenges, training sessions and tournaments in which the opponents, in the end, all play for the same team: the environment.
The history and numbers of MUV
The result of eight years of research by the design laboratory for social and urban innovation PUSH, MUV is developing a community of active users in more than 12 countries around the world. Since September 2018 MUV, with the first experimental tournaments, has contributed to changing the mobility habits of users active on routine routes. A few numbers to give an idea of the positive impact of MUV on the environment, but also on the health of the participants: over 260,000 km traveled in a sustainable way (20.8 km on average per week for each MUVer), CO₂ emissions reduced by 32% on average for each user, + 27% of calories burned on average per week by a MUVer during tournaments.