Category: Real Time Ridesharing

12-year olds building apps more popular than Angry Birds … and it all began in Cork, Ireland ‘CoderDojo’ is a free, open source forum providing coding coaching for young people from age eight upwards, in programming and content creation.  It’s like a cross between the boy/girl scouts, martial arts, and programming. CoderDojo was born about… Continue reading CoderDojo – an investment in the digital future

Northern Virginia BRAC project to affect 22,000 commuters in DC area With funding from the Federal Highway Administration and local government partners, Avego technology will be used to create a Real-Time Ridesharing corridor for five military sites affected by Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) in Northern Virginia. The pilot will be available to any military… Continue reading Avego RTR selected for 6-month DOD pilot

Kristian, an avid Avego user from Bergen, Norway shares his story I would like to call myself an environmentally conscious citizen. My first car purchase was not the traditional kind – rather than buying a car, I paid to become part of a local car-sharing community of 35 cars. Later on, I bought a tiny… Continue reading User Story: Pioneering Ridesharing in Bergen, Norway

Hawaii has the highest incidence of carpooling in the USA? At 16.4%, Hawaii clocked in at # 1 in the USA for % car and vanpools taken to work (2004 American Community Survey) Ridesharing was started by Ford and the Germans? In 1914, Ford had been mass-producing the Model T for 6 years, the US… Continue reading Did you know…

Bay Area Commuters to be introduced to Avego Real-Time Ridesharing Options         The San Francisco Bay Area is to be the location for largest Real-Time Ridesharing pilot to-date. The “WeGo Rideshare” pilot will cover areas in both the North Bay and East Bay, and begins its staggered roll-out on Earth Day, April… Continue reading “WeGo” Real-Time in the Bay Area

On January 31, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced the fourth round of TIGER grants. $500 million in discretionary grants are available for high-impact transportation projects including highways, bridges, rail, transit, ports, bicycle trails and pedestrian paths. The previous three rounds of the TIGER program provided $2.6 billion to 172 projects in all 50 states,… Continue reading U.S. DOT announces TIGER IV Grants

Latest version of Avego Driver caps a year of progress in RTR Back in December of 2008, the first generation of Avego Real-Time Ridesharing (RTR) was released as a prototype “experimental travel network”. Seven generations later, even though we’re still in the early days of the development in this new industry, the product has grown… Continue reading Avego Driver v2.5: it’s here!

We’re Keeping it Real (time) Although some of you may be familiar with 2012 as the Chinese “Year of the Dragon”, at Avego we’re proclaiming it “the Year of Real-time Ridesharing”. We’re not sure whether our proposed zodiac symbol (left) will catch on, but we do know that three out of four commuters polled in… Continue reading 2012: The Year of Ridesharing

Shout: Traditional Carpooling Made Easy Reliable, simple, straightforward: that’s what carpooling looks like with the new version of Avego Shout! Your carpool should do one thing: get you to work. It’s not supposed to give you a headache, lead to premature hair loss or cause frostbite from waiting in the cold. In just a few… Continue reading Avego Shout v1.1 Released