Another commune will pay residents to travel with each other

Running daily trips to and from Varde will soon be more cost-effective as taking an extra passenger in the car will be rewarded.

For trips longer than 5 km, the municipality will provide a driver's allowance of five Danish crowns per passenger.

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> Instead of her starting a car, I can just as well drive another way to pick her up.

> High school student, Lærke Bilgaard.

Varde Municipality has purchased a subscription from carpooling company Nabogo, which aims to make carpooling with others easy.

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Council member excited about carpooling

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Preben Friis-Hauge (V), who is the chairman of the Planning and Technical Committee in Varde Municipality, is pleased with the cooperation.

- If we can get four residents to drive in a car instead of each one, that's a win for the environment.

When a journey is entered on the Journey Planner, Nabogo solutions will also appear in the future, if the municipality, one is traveling to or from, has purchased the subscription. Therefore, Nabogo will be a supplement to public transportation, says Preben Friis-Hauge (V).

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Municipality also collaborates with Nabogo

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*Sjælland:*

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Kalundborg

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Kommune

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Lolland

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Odsherred

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Ringsted

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Slagelse

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Sorø

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Vordingborg

*Jylland and Fyn:*

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Fredericia

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Horsens

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Ikast-Brande

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Norddjurs

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Odder

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Syddjurs

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Sønderborg

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Varde

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Vejen

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Vejle

- We will have more targeted collective transportation where there is a specific need for a Nabogo solution instead of inserting a 48-seater bus, which we do not have a guarantee will be filled.

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High school students happy with carpooling

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Since November 2023, several of the country's high schools have tested Nabogo. In Varde Municipality, students from Varde Gymnasium and The Blue Gymnasium have been test subjects.

Lærke Bilgaard and Victoria Madsen have received a briefing on how to use the Nabogo app at Varde Gymnasium. (Photo: © Telma Svangtun Eriksen, DR)

Lærke Bilgaard, who is in the 2nd grade at Varde Gymnasium, is one of the students who have signed up as a driver in Nabogo. For her, carpooling has become a habit, even though some of the trips required her to drive a detour to pick up a schoolmate.

- We all go the same way, so instead of her starting a car, I can just as well drive another way to pick her up, she says.

Another who is also a driver is Victoria Madsen. She is in the same grade as Lærke Bilgaard and has no problem with also picking up strangers.

- If it's one of my friends, it's actually quite nice, but if not, I just turn up the music and we just listen to it.

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The young are quick to adapt

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For Kasper Dam Mikkelsen, who is a co-founder of Nabogo, it is not surprising that the young have taken to it easily, and the older generations just need to see it first.

- The working population is a little 'second movers', for it is first when they see it works or hear about it from a colleague, that they begin to move into it.

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> If we can get four residents to drive in a car instead of each one, that's a win for the environment.

> Chairman of the Planning and Technical Committee in Varde Municipality, Preben Friis-Hauge (V).

In Sønderborg Municipality, 954 residents have used the app from August 2023 to March 2025, 320 of them were drivers and 838 passengers. Kasper Dam Mikkelsen is pleased with this.

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