RideAmigos helps managing carpooling program which might change the game of American traffic and mobility (Photo : Reuters)
An app called RideAmigos will now help institutions to manage carpooling programs.
Venice-based RideAmigos is a ride-matching software that is committed to manage carpooling that aims to eliminate traffic, Los Angeles Times reported.
RideAmigos founder Jeffrey Chernick said that their dream is to eliminate the traffic.
This carpooling-managing app is different from other apps that connect users to get rides in a rush hour. RideAmigos focuses on networks of people going to same venues and places by sharing rides every day. This carpooling-managing program will create license to business institutions, the report said.
Some features can be seen in this program including a ride for those employees who are not driving, cut parking lot problems, and some corporate social responsibility as employers can claim to save the environment, the report added.
Campuses including Westside, Playa Vista, the Howard Hughes Center as well as Santa Monica College are among the clients of the software program, the report said.
Moreover, MIT is about to join the carpooling program.
University of California in Berkeley's Innovative Mobility Research director Susan Shaheen said that by this carpooling program, there would be a "new era of mobility," the report said. This program would be a new outlook on America's relations with mobility and transportation.
Chernick said that they are working with public transportation services including taxis to change the model of their enterprise, RideAmigos said.
Watch the video on YouTube about Jeffrey Chernick on RideAmigos lightning talk at the ESRI User Conference 2012. The app is to manage the carpooling program for the institutions as well as employers.
