# ecoTriver

> ecoTriver is where fans share the journey to concerts, festivals, and sports — travel together, meet your people, see your impact. People traveling to the same event share rides or team up for the train; organizers get a measured view of their audience's travel — the largest and least-tracked part of an event's footprint.

## What the platform does

The core loop is: **event → ride → impact → reporting**.

- **Event discovery** — concerts, festivals, sports, and running events across Europe with venue, artist, and tour context.
- **Ride sharing** — drivers offer seats for a specific event; booking is free of charge, and the fuel share is split directly and fairly between driver and passengers. Never a for-profit ride.
- **Train groups** — people arriving by train team up per event and travel together.
- **CO₂ accounting** — every completed shared ride calculates avoided emissions using the official UBA 2024 TREMOD factor (0.164 kg CO₂ per km per passenger car). Round trips count both legs.
- **Organizer dashboard** — venues and festivals get aggregate audience-travel emissions, shared-ride rate, and downloadable reports.

## Who it serves

- **Event-goers** — drivers splitting fuel costs, passengers avoiding parking stress and emissions, everyone arriving together.
- **Artists and tours** — transparent Scope 3 visibility over fan travel.
- **Venues and festivals** — reporting-ready visitor-travel data (GCCM007-aligned).
- **Climate reporters and researchers** — open methodology, published emission factors, verifiable per-event impact numbers.

## Methodology and trust

- Emission factor source: Umweltbundesamt (UBA) TREMOD 6.71B, 2024 — 0.164 kg CO₂/km, average German passenger car.
- Open methodology: https://www.ecotriver.com/methodology
- Per-event impact: public, addressable, and downloadable at the event and organizer level.
- Privacy: GDPR-compliant, Berlin jurisdiction, Proton Mail for operational communication.
- Security contact: https://www.ecotriver.com/.well-known/security.txt

## Key public sections

- [About the company](https://www.ecotriver.com/about)
- [For organizers and venues](https://www.ecotriver.com/for-organizers)
- [For sustainability managers](https://www.ecotriver.com/for-sustainability-managers) — value-chain-ready Scope 3 visitor-travel data for reporting
- [Organizers directory](https://www.ecotriver.com/organizers) — event organizers and their aggregate audience-travel impact
- [Methodology and emission factors](https://www.ecotriver.com/methodology)
- [FAQ](https://www.ecotriver.com/faq) — how ride sharing works, what it costs, and how impact is measured
- [Events](https://www.ecotriver.com/events) — upcoming concerts, festivals, sports, running
- [Rides](https://www.ecotriver.com/rides) — open ride listings per event
- [Artists](https://www.ecotriver.com/artists) — tour-level impact context
- [Sports](https://www.ecotriver.com/sports) — leagues, teams, and fixtures with shared-ride matching
- [Locations and cities](https://www.ecotriver.com/locations)
- [Statistics](https://www.ecotriver.com/statistics) — live aggregate platform impact
- [Fuel calculator](https://www.ecotriver.com/fuel-calculator) — estimate per-trip emissions before offering a ride
- [Blog](https://www.ecotriver.com/blog) — product and impact updates
- [Event archive](https://www.ecotriver.com/events/archive): events that have already happened, with what travelling together measured

Every artist, tour, venue, city, team, league and organizer page also carries its own history at `/{entity}/{slug}/archive`: every date already played or held, newest first, with the CO2 saved, the km travelled together and the people connected that we measured for each one.

## Optional

- [Privacy policy](https://www.ecotriver.com/privacy)
- [Terms of service](https://www.ecotriver.com/terms)
- [Imprint](https://www.ecotriver.com/imprint)
- [Contact](https://www.ecotriver.com/contact) — support@ecotriver.com

## What we believe

- Positive-sum or nothing: a feature that profits one stakeholder at another's expense doesn't ship. User, organizer, venue, nature — all of them, or redesign.
- Abundance over equilibrium: break-even is accounting; living systems over-deliver. The platform measures every shared ride so that giving back more than was taken can become the norm — organizer-funded climate contribution is the vision.
- People are participants, not metrics: no dark patterns, no retention hacks. If they don't return, the product needs to be better — not louder.

## Brand and positioning

- Slogan: Share the journey — arrive together.
- Based in Berlin, Germany. Bilingual: English and German.
- Not a for-profit taxi service, not a booking aggregator, not a voluntary offset marketplace. The category is event-travel impact infrastructure.