What is Car Pooling / Shared Transport / Car sharing ? carpooling , also known as car-sharing , ridesharing , liftshare / lift share and covoiturage, rideshare is the sharing of car journeys so that more than one person travels in a car or commute together by share a drive / share a ride .
How can you be a car pooler or do a rideshare or carshare / information about carpool ?
- You can search for people who travel on the route you follow.
- You can either be a vehical (car) owner/ driver or a companion / commuter (passenger).
- Then you can search for either a vehical owner or companion(s) from the various mediums available like public web sites , car pooling service providers ,from car pooling softwares ,pick up joints, car sharing matching services, forums etc. to be a part of carpools / ridesharing listed mediums differ from place to place , you can also avail the carpool information from the people who are already making use of carpooling or from autostop / driveaway.
- Car pooling can increasing your social network.
Benefits of carpooling / shared transportation / car share / ride share / dynamic ride sharing :
- Economically : as car pooling encouges many poeple travelling together its cost saving ,fuel saving ,saves money , cuts on fuel expenses,cost benefits like mid jouney expenses , saving benefits ,reduce costs of travelling.
- Socially / environmentally : car pooling provides a lot of driving benefits as people can rotate the driving seat among them selves , group travel always makes good relations, reduces the carbon emissions makeing the out world a green place and hense maintaining the ecological balance also.
Types pf shared transportation / vanpool / shareride / carsharing :
- Regular carpooling : can be a company carpool , school carpool ,corporate carpool , carpooling for organisations / organisation carpool .
- Occasinal carpool : - event carpool / event carshare where people going for a particular event can share their vehicals or go for a rent-a-car / car rental or calling for a bus tour rather then taking individual vehicals.
- Long distance carpool : road trip , cross country ,long distance ride , flightsharing.
- Others : car pooling is also taken as a corporate solution so that none of the resouces are wasted.
Carpooling is a big hit in a lot of countries on the globe like australia , usa , canada , germany ,france , italy , spain , new zealand.