Category: In The News

Real-Time Ridesharing test kicks off in Santa Barbara, CA

  July 2 marked the first day of beta testing in Santa Barbara, CA. A route between Isla Vista and Santa Barbara City College (SBCC) will have SBCC Summer School students using the Avego Driver application to share rides in real time over the coming 4 weeks on a program that local officials call “SmartRide”.… Continue reading Real-Time Ridesharing test kicks off in Santa Barbara, CA

Real-time Ridesharing recognized by US Congress

A historic breakthrough was made for the Real-Time Ridesharing community in late June when the U.S. Congress expanded the definition of “carpool projects” in federal law to include “Real-Time Ridesharing”.  This is the first time that the definition of carpooling has been updated in over 30 years. The transportation bill, known as MAP-21 (Moving Ahead… Continue reading Real-time Ridesharing recognized by US Congress

Avego Consultant Receives International Award

Avego Professional Services Consultant, Colin Mooney, was selected as one of the “Top 40 Under 40” Transportation Demand Professionals in the world. The Association for Commuter Transportation (ACT) will be recognizing Colin Mooney at their upcoming international conference in Savannah, GA in late July. This prestigious award will be the first of its kind to… Continue reading Avego Consultant Receives International Award

Keeping Agile

Gas prices, high traffic volumes, and poor air quality around metropolitan areas have an increasingly disabling impact on all our lives. At Avego we started a revolution to stop the madness and actually do something practical and FREE to make life a lot easier for everyone. The ridesharing community is growing and changing. Since the… Continue reading Keeping Agile

Burkhard Blum joins as Avego COO

In the face of rapid expansion, Avego adds social networking executive to management team. KINSALE, Ireland – 1 June 2012 – Burkhard Blum, who previously served as the COO to XING, the first social networking company to go public, and Europe’s largest social network for business users, has joined Avego as Chief Operating Officer. “Burkhard… Continue reading Burkhard Blum joins as Avego COO

Avego, Crowdsourcing Public Transit

The bottom-up, interoperable transit network as a solution for our time While other companies and people have implemented systems of ridesharing before (from vanpooling to pre-arranged ridematching using on-line communities like Craigslist), Avego is the first to attempt to unify cars, vans and buses into a “multi-modal” approach, from the bottom up. Traditionally public transit… Continue reading Avego, Crowdsourcing Public Transit

The Taoiseach’s Visit

Avego was delighted to welcome Irish Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Wicklow TD Simon Harris to its Dublin office on the 11th of May for a high speed tour and hands on demonstration of our products. Weronika Morisson showed them Avego’s latest Leap Card technology. Avego is developing electronic ticket issuing machines, on the  Android platform , integrated with Leap Card readers, for… Continue reading The Taoiseach’s Visit

Congressman Mike Thompson kicks off Avego Sonoma beta

Representative Mike Thompson (D-CA) books a Real-Time Rideshare in an all-electric Tesla Roadster At the beginning of this month, Mike Thompson, representative of California’s First Congressional District, attended a Real-Time Ridesharing event, hosted by WeGo Sonoma, in Santa Rosa California. The event marked the beginning of the WeGo Sonoma beta testing phase for commuters traveling… Continue reading Congressman Mike Thompson kicks off Avego Sonoma beta

Behind the scenes

What do we really do? Here’s a sneak peak into what happens behind the curtain at Avego… Here at Avego, we produce killer solutions for enabling efficient transport networks using GPS, web and mobile technologies. Our applications are used by commuters who take fixed-route, vanpool or carpool commute options every day. However, “Behind the Scenes”,… Continue reading Behind the scenes