Category: Real Time Ridesharing

Sharing the Love with Toll Refunds Across Central Texas

We have to say it: we love Austin! Over the past year, the Carma community has grown and shown activity far beyond our program goals. 10,600 carpool trips over 172,000 miles were shared by members, 8,200 gallons of gas saved, $3,600 in commuting costs shared, and 160,600 pounds of CO2 emissions avoided. In addition, Carma gave over $2,500… Continue reading Sharing the Love with Toll Refunds Across Central Texas

Austin: Carpool for Mobility Week

20/20 is easy with Carma The City of Austin, Austin Chamber of Commerce, and Movability Austin have issued a challenge to local companies – reduce employee “drive alone” commutes by 20% by the year 2020. The question on everyone’s minds: How do we reduce people driving alone by 20%? Well, the obvious answer is: don’t… Continue reading Austin: Carpool for Mobility Week

[AUSTIN] Share Carma, Get Carma

Carma is built on the idea that all good deeds come full circle. Offer someone a ride today, and tomorrow they’ll do the same for you. Here in our newest city of Austin, Texas, we love how our members have taken this idea to heart. Not only are you guys sharing the Carma love, but you’re also proving… Continue reading [AUSTIN] Share Carma, Get Carma

Riding Together

What’s the best way to get from A to B? Carpooling is an awesome way to get to work, but sometimes public transit is the way to go, or cycling, or walking. There are many ways we can get to where we want, when we want, without adding more cars to our roads. But often… Continue reading Riding Together

The Quantified Commute

My phone just woke up to ask me a simple question, “How happy do you feel now?” It’s the second time today that I’ve answered a brief survey about how I feel, what I’m doing and where I am. It’s triggered by an app called Mappiness, which is building up a profile of where and… Continue reading The Quantified Commute

Marketing Tools for YOUR Ridesharing Community

In addition to adding new features, increasing speed and reliability of the app, we’ve been trying to develop ways to make it easier for you to market and advertise Avego RTR within your community or perhaps for a particular employer. The first of these tools that has just come out of production, is our RTR… Continue reading Marketing Tools for YOUR Ridesharing Community

Getting there: The world changed… and nobody told us

Avego’s James Shields shares some of his insightful and sometimes bizarre opinions and analysis of technology, life and everything in between. A couple of things have been rattling around my mind over the last few weeks. In 1993 Bill Clinton was the new US president, I had no internet access, was using a shared 386… Continue reading Getting there: The world changed… and nobody told us