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Loco2 is an online train travel booking service that provides coverage for approximately 12 countries in Europe. The service is integrated with multiple rail operators, including ATOC in the United Kingdom, SNCF in France, Deutsche Bahn in Germany, Renfe in Spain and both Italo and Trenitalia in Italy. The company sells fares for all major high-speed rail services in Europe, such as TGV, ICE, Eurostar, AVE, Thalys, Frecciarossa, and Italo. Founded in 2006, Loco2 is headquartered in London. The company's name is both an abbreviation of the phrase "low CO2" as well as a reference to locomotive travel. A 2014 ''Business Traveler'' article about Loco2 noted that booking rail tickets directly through Europe's rail operators often leads to inconsistent user experiences including credit card rejection issues, limited access to discount fares, and complicated navigation experiences. A similar ''TechCrunch'' article characterized the booking systems as "fiendishly complex."〔 Loco2 promotes train travel as a low carbon alternative to air travel, due to rail travel’s ability to reduce a traveler's carbon footprint by up to 90 percent.〔 The company's stated mission is to "make booking a train as easy as booking a flight." ==History== Loco2 was founded in 2006 by Kate Andrews during her final year as an Undergraduate at Sussex University. The goal initially was to launch a low carbon travel company. As the company’s focus moved to European rail specifically, she was joined by her brother Jamie Andrews and Technical Director Jon Leighton, a leading contributor to Ruby on Rails.〔 From 2011 onwards, Loco2 began to integrate with the booking systems of Europe’s major rail operators, which have been historically isolated not only from one another but also from third party services.〔〔 As of 2015, Loco2 is integrated with the following rail operator booking systems in Europe: 〔〔〔 In 2013 Loco2 partnered with The Guardian to launch ''Guardian Trains,'' a Guardian-branded version of Loco2's train ticket booking application. In 2014 Loco2 added Vimal Khosla, previously a board member of lastminute.com, to its board.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Loco2」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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