For the summer, FlixBus strengthens connections with Campania by focusing both on the coastal areas and the hinterland, and therefore also on Avellino and Irpinia. This reflects the company’s desire to facilitate knowledge of the area by supporting a more environmentally friendly approach to travel, based on the use of collective means of transport rather than private cars.
For the whole summer Avellino it will be connected, for example, with Rome up to 35 times a week, with Pescara up to 7 times a week and, on the long haul, with cities such as Bologna (14 times a week) or Milan and Turin (both up to 7 times) . Similarly, those leaving for holidays from the capital of Irpinia will be able to benefit from new operational connections to areas of tourist interest such as the Gargano, thanks to the active routes with Peschici, Vieste and Rodi Garganico, which are added to those operational with Termoli, in Molise.
In the province, however, Grottaminarda it will be reachable from Rome up to five times a week and, with the same frequency, also from medium and large centers of the Peninsula such as Florence, Bari, Taranto and Andria.
The increase in connections with Irpinia, the green heart of Campania, goes hand in hand with FlixBus’ desire to support the deconcentration of tourist flows through the promotion of internal areas, which the public debate has recognized as possible hubs of development for more sustainable lifestyles.
With the strengthening of summer connections, the number of cities in Campania that can be reached on board the green buses rises to over 20. Of these, 10 (50%) are municipalities with less than 20,000 inhabitants: by guaranteeing connections also with various smaller centres, FlixBus intends to facilitate people’s movements even towards locations less easily reachable from other regions.
«We believe that an efficient and widespread collective mobility offer can best combine the need for sustainability with that of cost-effectiveness, as well as contributing to creating opportunities for the tourism development of the area», he stated Andrea Incondi, Managing Director of FlixBus Italia. «For this summer too, in addition to increasing the frequency of connections on the most well-known and popular national routes, we wanted to enhance lesser-known locations in our beautiful country. The variety of our heritage is a priceless wealth, and we believe it is essential to facilitate access even to less frequented centres. In this way we can contribute to highlighting the particularities of the territory by encouraging environmentally friendly forms of travel, with the possibility of generating a spin-off for local economies and encouraging an approach to discovering places that can also benefit the destination communities », added Incondi.
How to reconcile sustainability and cost-effectiveness? The bus as a possible solution
When considering emission factors in Europe, a personal car produces on average 166 grams of CO2 per passenger per km, while a FlixBus bus is characterized by an average emission factor of only 27.8 grams of CO2 per passenger per km , more than 5 times lower.
By preferring the bus to the car, those who travel will be able to reduce their impact at a low cost. The benefits of this approach to the choice of means, which combines the needs of sustainability and cost-effectiveness, can be seen above all in the long term: in 2023, those who preferred FlixBus and FlixTrain to other solutions in the over 40 countries where the company operates, allowed to save over 1 million tons of CO2, of which 152,000 in Italy alone.
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