Sunday, 16 September 2012, 6pm GMT, 10am Pacific Last night, we discovered there was an attempt to steal passwords and phone numbers from some of Avego’s RTR (real-time ridesharing) accounts. We can confirm that an unauthorized user gained access to user e-mail addresses and encrypted passwords for corresponding accounts due to an exploit in a… Continue reading Important Security Update
Category: In The News
What’s up in Washington, D.C.?
Avego’s Jason Conoly brings us up-to-date on what Congress has been doing over the Summer On August 17th, the Obama Administration announced that it would make available $473 million in unspent “earmark” funding to states for spending on transportation projects. State departments of transportation have the ability to spend this money on any eligible surface… Continue reading What’s up in Washington, D.C.?
New, innovative models – is it really ridesharing?
About eight times more expensive and serving a need, but are they really taking cars off the road? Ridesharing is the area to be in at the moment – both in technology and transportation – and it seems everyone’s jumping on the bandwagon (as they should do). Avego has been pioneering ridesharing technology since 2007… Continue reading New, innovative models – is it really ridesharing?
vRide and Avego
Taking one million cars off the road vRide (www.vride.com) is the world’s largest vanpool organization, with over 5,500 vans transporting over 50,000 people on their daily commute – saving them time, money and the environment. Avego and vRide have been working in partnership for over 3 years. Together, we are transforming the rideshare market towards… Continue reading vRide and Avego
Avego 3.0: The new era of Real-Time Ridesharing
Prepare for the biggest overhaul Real-Time Ridesharing has seen since 2009! Meet Avego 3.0: streamlined, flexible and social. Standing still in the world of modern technology just isn’t an option, unless your business plan is “get bulldozed by the next-big-thing”. In Avego, that is definitely not what we’re about! From within the Avego Laboratory a… Continue reading Avego 3.0: The new era of Real-Time Ridesharing
Incentivizing New Behavior
How to crack the age-old question: what incentives really work? Avego was mentioned in a recent New York Times article “Carpooling makes a surge on apps and social media,” which discusses the recent explosion of electronic media used for ridesharing, but not without challenges. Car aficionado Tara Weingarten of vroomgirls.com comments that ridesharing will be… Continue reading Incentivizing New Behavior
Action on the front lines!
A new member joins the Avego USA team The most recent addition to the Avego America team, Enjoleah Daye, has joined the front lines in the battle against the commute stress in Northern Virginia and Washington D.C. A highly pressurized parking situation and an apparently ever-increasing number of commuters along ‘the belt’ lead to traffic… Continue reading Action on the front lines!
New Funding Opportunities for Ridesharing and Vanpooling
What happens in DC when US Congress goes on vacation? While Congress is out of town for the August recess—Avego’s Washington, DC office has been busy reviewing the recently passed surface transportation legislation to identify new funding opportunities for real-time ridesharing and vanpooling projects. On July 6, President Obama signed into law a multi-year surface… Continue reading New Funding Opportunities for Ridesharing and Vanpooling
Slice an hour off your daily commute with Avego
First tests with Avego in the Northern Virginia (NOVA) region receiving great user feedback Since we last updated you on the The Avego pilot project with the US Department of Defense Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) in Northern Virginia, the project has been growing steadily. With the first stages of the pilot now in motion, active… Continue reading Slice an hour off your daily commute with Avego
Olympic Ridesharing
Ridesharing would have saved the London Olympic organizers a lot of grief, and everybody a lot of money. Usain Bolt travels more than thrice the speed the average car does in London, and yet there are still empty seats clogging up the special fast track traffic lanes all across the city. In their defence you… Continue reading Olympic Ridesharing