Directory of Carpooling Resources

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Carpooling (also known as ride-sharing, lift-sharing and covoiturage), is the sharing of car journeys so that more than one person travels in a car. By having more people using one vehicle, carpooling reduces each person's travel costs such as fuel costs, tolls, and the stress of driving. Carpooling is also seen as a more environmentally friendly and sustainable way to travel as sharing journeys reduces carbon emissions, traffic congestion on the roads, and the need for parking spaces. Authorities often encourage carpooling, especially during high pollution periods and high fuel prices.

Resources in This Category

• AlterNetRides

  http://alternetrides.com/
  Free service nationwide that matches up commuters. Includes links to other resources.

• Amovens

  https://amovens.com/
  A website for listing carpools and private car rentals in the UK and Spain.

• Blablacar

  https://www.blablacar.co.uk/
  Long distance rideshare company for city-to-city car journeys.

• Carpool King

  http://www.carpoolking.com/
  Free carpool and rideshare matching.

• CarPoolWorld

  http://carpoolworld.com/
  Matches commuters based on proximity to home and work. Worldwide.

• CoMosey

  http://comosey.com/
  Carpool listings, maps and groups.

• Composition of Vehicle Occupancy for Journey to Work Trips

  http://www.uvm.edu/~transctr/research/grad/12-0489.pdf
  Research paper addressing the gaps in scientific literature by identifying individual, household and physical environment characteristics that correlate with an individual’s choice to rideshare instead of drive alone.

• CovEvent

  http://covevent.be/
  Covevent is a carpooling platform for event organizers that need to get rides for their event participants.

• eRideShare

  http://erideshare.com/
  Ride sharing and carpool board. Travel and commuting databases arranged by country and state.

• Faxi

  https://faxi.co.uk/
  Allows anyone to set up their own closed commuter carpooling groups.

• Find Carpool

  http://findcarpool.ca/
  Mainly Canadian carpool listings.

• Freewheelers

  http://freewheelers.co.uk/
  Lift sharing database connecting drivers and passengers to share the cost of travel to work, festivals, gigs and sporting events.

• GishiGo

  http://gishigo.com/
  Matches travellers for one-time trips.

• GoCarShare

  http://gocarshare.com/
  A service is built around Facebook and helps you share car journeys with your extended social network.

• Grab

  http://www.grab.com/
  Ride-hailing platform with a focus on Southeast Asia

• iCarpool

  http://www.icarpool.com/
  Online service and phone app to search for either daily or long distance commute.

• Jayride

  http://au.jayride.com/
  Australian carpool search listing service.

• Kommen

  http://www.trykommen.com/
  A rideshare mobile application that enables Uber passengers schedule rides for later.

• LiftShare

  http://www.liftshare.com/
  The online service helping one find travelling companions.

• Lyft

  http://www.lyft.com/
  The second largest ridesharing company in the world, with its primary presence in the United States of America.

• MIT "Real-Time" Rideshare Research

  http://ridesharechoices.scripts.mit.edu/home/
  Information collected and presented by a group of transportation researchers in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering studying the existing challenges and the opportunities to increase ridesharing participation.

• Not Driving Alone: Commuting in the Twenty-First Century

  http://org.elon.edu/econ/WPS/wp2010-01.pdf
  A scientific investigation of recent commuting trends in American workers and both traditional economic determinants as well as socio-economic factors influencing their decision to carpool.

• Online Ride Share

  http://online.ride-share.com/en/my/
  Vancouver and British Columbia's online ride-share, carpool and van-pool service.

• Pool My Car

  http://www.poolmycar.in/
  Carpooling partner search in India.

• Ridester

  http://www.ridester.com/
  Feedback-rated system for one-time travel.

• Roadsharing

  http://www.roadsharing.com/
  A meeting point for people that want to reduce travel costs and pollution. Portal with a search engine based on Google maps.

• Samferda

  http://www.samferda.net/
  Carpooling partner search in Iceland. No registration required.

• Share your Ride

  http://www.shareyourride.net/
  Free carpool and ride share service. Offer your roadtrips for free, find drivers and passengers.

• SpaceShare

  http://spaceshare.com/
  A service for event planners that facilitates ride- and taxi-shares among large event attendees.

• Transportation Research Board: Flexible Carpooling to Transit Stations

  http://www.trb.org/Main/Blurbs/169359.aspx
  Explores a flexible carpooling service designed to increase carpooling to transit stations.

• Uber

  http://www.uber.com/
  The largest ridesharing company in the world, with a presence in over 300 cities across the globe.

• Uberkit.net

  http://www.uberkit.net/me/
  Paid product information site for people that want to grow their Uber business or fleet of Uber cars.

• UberPeople

  http://www.uberpeople.net/
  This is the largest forum for Uber drivers on the internet.

• Who Chooses to Carpool and Why?

  https://ceprofs.civil.tamu.edu/mburris/Papers/TRR%202021%20-%20Who%20Carpools%20and%20Why.pdf
  A scientific examination of Texas carpoolers.

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