Shared travel and sustainable mobility: fewer emissions on every journey

According to data from Viatik, the intercity ridesharing platform, since its creation in 2022 more than 336 tons of CO₂ have been avoided, thanks to the occupancy of seats that, otherwise, would have traveled empty.

Since 2023, the reduction in emissions generated by ridesharing has grown more than 12 times, going from 18 tons of CO₂ avoided to more than 220 tons in 2025, in line with the expansion and adoption of the platform.

Tourist routes: where the environmental impact is greatest. The reduction of emissions is not uniform: long-distance routes with high tourist flow concentrate the greatest positive environmental impact, since they combine more kilometers traveled with greater seat occupancy.

In that sense, Viátik points out that routes to tourist destinations account for a large part of the CO₂ reduction, especially in high season. 

Fewer cars on the road, fewer emissions in cities.
The environmental benefit of carpooling is not limited to reducing emissions per trip. By sharing rides, the number of cars on the road is also reduced, both on highways and in access roads and city centers, especially during peak tourist seasons.

The environmental benefits of carpooling are not limited to reducing emissions per trip. By sharing rides, the number of cars on the road is also reduced, both on highways and in access roads and city centers, especially during peak tourist seasons.

Each passenger who joins a car already in motion avoids the need for an additional vehicle, which directly impacts:

Less fuel consumption,
less traffic congestion,
more efficient use of existing infrastructure.

To put the environmental data into context, the cumulative reduction of 336 tons of CO₂ is roughly equivalent to the emissions generated by approximately 73 private cars in a year, or the emissions from more than 1,600 short-haul domestic flights per passenger. It is also equivalent to the CO₂ absorption of about 16,000 mature trees in a year. (Estimated equivalencies based on
international averages for carbon emissions and absorption.)

An impact that grows month by month.
At the current rate, the carpooling community avoids between 15 and 20 tons of CO₂ per month, a figure that continues to increase as carpooling adoption grows and new routes are added.

The platform explains that this aspect will become increasingly relevant. “The environmental impact of ridesharing grows as more people adopt this way of traveling. Every occupied seat means one less emission, and measuring that effect allows us to understand how everyday decisions can have a real positive impact.”

“In 2026 we will continue to deepen the monitoring of this data to make it increasingly visible,” explains Gonzalo Aszyn, CTO and co-founder of Viatik.

On a day that invites us to reflect on the impact of our daily decisions, transportation is one of the biggest generators of emissions in Argentina. In this context, sharing a ride ceases to be just an economic decision and becomes a concrete environmental action.

Source: Viatik