Lots of skiers in Mora. Photo: Vasaloppet.
Yesterday around 16 000 enthusiastic skiers pushed themselves along the 90 kilometres long ski race Vasaloppet in Mora, Dalarna.
Participating in a race like this must be exhausting in many ways – not only thinking of the physical challenges, but also the fact of organising all the participants and their spectators into Mora, which normally houses about 11 000 inhabitants.
Registering in advance
One way of not filling the whole city with cars is to encourage people to share their rides.
Before the race lots of travellers have been registering at a web service called Samtrip which connects people who are going to big events, or just need a lift or someone to share their car space with.
One person per car
According to a report I recently read the average number of passengers carried in every car in Sweden is 1,2. So, there is a huge potential to make these travels more energy efficient.
Now there are also several rideshare services, like for example Pendlarservice (partly in English) that companies and organisations as well as private persons can use to let their employees who take the same way to work find each other.
So, hopefully all of those who have taken their cars to Vasaloppet have at least one more person to chat to when they are returning home.
