Corporate Carpooling in Tunisia: Reduce the Number of Employee Taxi Trips

Summary:

1. The problem of individual taxi reimbursements
2. How pooling works
3. Worked example: 8 employees, ZI Ben Arous
4. How to estimate your savings
5. Conditions to implement pooling
6. Take action

The daily transport of employees is often the most poorly controlled mobility expense in a company. Each employee takes an individual taxi, notes their expenses separately, and management receives many expense reports at the end of the month, with little visibility on the total cost or on duplicate trips.

One approach is organised corporate carpooling, or pooling taxi: several employees share one vehicle on a planned route.

1. The problem of individual taxi reimbursements

Imagine 8 employees working in the same industrial zone and living in neighbourhoods close to Tunis. Each takes a taxi alone every morning:

• 8 employees means 8 separate vehicle trips each way
• Distance Tunis centre → ZI Ben Arous: about 12 km
• 8 expense claims to check each month, with no common format
• The same roads are used by 8 vehicles at the same time

2. How pooling works

Pooling is an organised shared vehicle, not random pickups. Here is the principle:

1. You provide the list of employees, their addresses and their schedules
2. We propose routes: a vehicle picks up several employees in the same geographical corridor
3. Each employee is picked up at an agreed address and time
4. One trip with multiple stops replaces several individual trips

Vehicle types depend on group size. Cars, vans and minibuses can be considered; vehicle type and capacity are confirmed in the written quote.

3. Worked example: 8 employees, ZI Ben Arous

Scenario: 8 employees, 2 geographical corridors, departure 7:30 AM

Pooling organisation:

• Vehicle A: 4 employees from Bab Bhar / Medina (about 12 km)
• Vehicle B: 4 employees from El Menzah / La Marsa (about 16 km)

The number of vehicle trips falls from 8 to 2. The price of the pooled service is set in a proposal based on your actual routes, schedule and vehicle type, so we do not publish a figure here.

4. How to estimate your savings

To estimate what pooling could save your company, compare your current spend with the proposal:

1. Add up your current monthly spend on individual taxi trips for the group (from your expense reports)
2. Request a proposal for the same group and routes
3. Compare the two totals over a month, then over a year
4. Include the administrative time saved by checking one invoice instead of many claims

Savings depend on group size, how close the employees live to each other and the schedule. No saving percentage is promised before your routes are reviewed.

5. Conditions to implement pooling

Corporate taxi pooling works well in these situations:

Favourable:

• Several employees on close geographical corridors
• Arrival and departure times that are fixed or predictable
• Recurring home-work or work-airport trips
• Industrial zone or single site (Ben Arous, Bir El Bey, Sousse, Sfax)

Less suitable:

• Unforeseen external meetings requiring flexible returns
• Employees very dispersed geographically

In this last case, a combination of pooling for fixed trips and individual rides for ad hoc travel can be the most practical formula.

6. Take action

Well-organised corporate carpooling can simplify your transport costs and make employee arrival times easier to plan.

Next step: check our transport services for companies to see the options, then contact our team so we can review your actual trips and send a proposal.

You can also see how fares work on our pricing page.