South Africa's first carbon intelligence platform. Track 9 transport modes, sync with the live Eskom grid, and turn every trip into a carbon-smart choice.
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Cape Town
Today's commute
Today's trips · 3 modes
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Every carbon tool on the market was built somewhere else — for somewhere else. They miss what makes South African mobility unique, and the gap is getting expensive.
60–70%
of SA urban commuters
Six to seven in ten South African urban commuters travel by kombi taxi — the backbone of SA mobility — yet not a single global tracker accounts for it. Billions of trips go unmeasured every year.
Foreign
emission factors
UK and US emission factors miss local load factors, fuel quality, and road conditions. What works in London or LA produces wildly wrong numbers on the N2 — making every ‘carbon tracker’ imported into SA fundamentally unreliable.
900
gCO₂ per kilowatt-hour
Eskom's coal-heavy grid emits roughly three times the EU average per kWh. That changes the maths for every EV, every train, every electric bus — and no foreign app knows it.
Scope 3
disclosure pressure
JSE ESG requirements and global Scope 3 mandates demand commuter emission data that companies simply cannot collect today. The compliance gap is widening — and the auditors are already asking.
So we built one — for Cape Town, for the kombi, for the grid that powers it all.
Three steps turn an unmeasured commute into a carbon-smart decision — automatically, passively, and on data that actually fits the streets you travel.
Log any trip — or let auto-detect do it for you
Open the app and forget about it. GPS and accelerometer signals passively detect every trip and infer the transport mode in real time. No buttons, no manual logging, no friction.
See real grams of CO₂ for every route choice
Every trip is scored against South Africa-specific emission factors — not foreign averages. Compare the kombi, the BRT, the e-hail and the EV on honest, locally-calibrated numbers.
Choose greener routes and build carbon-saving streaks
Hit your weekly CO₂ budget. GreenRoute surfaces smarter route options and rewards consistency with streaks — turning climate action from a guilt trip into a daily win.
Three on-device passes turn raw motion data into a calibrated carbon footprint — no cloud round-trip, no manual entry, no privacy compromise.
Phase 1
Passive trip logging
GPS and accelerometer signals detect your trip and infer the transport mode — no input needed. Mode inference runs entirely on-device.
Phase 2
Localised SA emission factors
Your exact CO₂ is computed using SA-specific emission factors — updated live via the Eskom grid intensity feed.
Phase 3
Weekly, monthly, enterprise
Weekly budget, monthly summaries, streak rewards, and enterprise Scope 3 exports — all in one dashboard.
Speed, variance, and acceleration signatures are matched against transport-mode fingerprints. Everything happens locally — your raw GPS never leaves the phone.
Walk
Avg speed < 6 km/h
MyCiTi BRT
Regular stops, 15–50 km/h
Minibus taxi
High variance, 15–60 km/h
EV / Car
Smooth accel, 20+ km/h
Sensor input
GPS · accelerometer · gyroscope
Live grid feed
Eskom intensity via Electricity Maps API
SA emission factors
UCT + DEA National GHG Inventory
Every gram is calibrated against UCT Energy Research Centre and the DEA National GHG Inventory — not foreign averages. Here are six of the nine modes GreenRoute tracks.
CO₂ intensity by mode
Lower is greener — grams of CO₂ per passenger-kilometre
Sources: Minibus taxi — UCT Energy Research Centre 2024 + GreenRoute fieldwork. Car & grid factors — DEA National GHG Inventory 2024.
Walk / Cycle
Zero-emission baseline
0
g/pkm
MyCiTi BRT
Cape Town's bus rapid transit
68
g/pkm
Minibus Taxi
SA's invisible backbone — now measured
52
g/pkm
Golden Arrow Bus
Diesel fleet, suburban routes
89
g/pkm
Four capabilities that make GreenRoute work for the individual on the kombi and the sustainability team in the boardroom — without compromise.
GPS and accelerometer detect trips and infer your transport mode without any user input. Open the app once and forget — every commute gets logged, every mode gets scored.
0 taps
to log a trip
Eskom grid intensity updates EV emission factors in real time via the Electricity Maps API. A clean-grid hour genuinely changes your number.
Real-time
Eskom feed
GreenRoute recognises your top commutes after 3 trips and surfaces them as one-tap shortcuts. The longer you use it, the less you have to think.
3 trips
to learn a route
Aggregated commuter emission data for GRI 305-3 and JSE ESG disclosure requirements. Export-ready, auditor-friendly, and built for the corporate sustainability team that needs it yesterday.
GRI 305-3
JSE ESG ready
SA's carbon intensity makes every mode choice more impactful than anywhere in Europe — and the reporting mandates are catching up fast. GreenRoute sits at the intersection.
Individual commuters
Growing urban climate awareness and carbon literacy drive adoption. GreenRoute turns an abstract problem — ‘my carbon footprint’ — into a daily, visible, gamified win.
9
Transport modes tracked
3×
Eskom grid vs EU average
Enterprise sustainability teams
JSE ESG disclosures and global Scope 3 reporting mandates create an urgent, unmet B2B demand. Companies cannot currently collect commuter emission data — GreenRoute hands it to them, aggregated and audit-ready.
GRI 305-3
Disclosure standard
JSE ESG
Listing requirement
The window is now.
JSE ESG disclosures are tightening and urban climate awareness is peaking — both audiences need GreenRoute at the same time.
GreenRoute is live in Cape Town — beta access is open now for commuters and enterprise teams. Join the waitlist and we'll reach out with onboarding details.
greenroute.lync.digital
Mohammed.roqa@lync.digital
Cape Town, South Africa
