We have just released an update to the AvegoTM Shared Transport iPhone app. Version 1.0.3 includes a number of usability improvements for both drivers and riders. Before you start using the iPhone app to share your vacant seats with others, you must first have recorded a route, with some safe and convenient pick-up / drop-off… Continue reading Avego Shared Transport Version 1.0.3 Released
Category: Real Time Ridesharing
Avego’s Network Operations Center
Avego’s centralized network operations center (NOC) is responsible for monitoring the use of Avego’s products, ensuring network reliability and providing detailed reports to customers. The NOC will also generate messages for users of Avego Shared Transport, to inform them about new service availability in their area. Robbie O’Sullivan recently joined Avego as the manager of… Continue reading Avego’s Network Operations Center
New Office in Silicon Valley
Avego has just opened a new office located in Silicon Valley, California, which is led by Paul Steinberg, who has joined Avego as Director of Sales, Americas. Paul is responsible for sales of FuturefleetTM to private and public operators and will also be involved in establishing pilots of AvegoTM Shared Transport. Paul is a graduate… Continue reading New Office in Silicon Valley
Ride-sharing Made Simple
Many companies have offered ride-sharing sites on the Internet that help fill seats in people’s cars and conserve gas use and greenhouse gasses, however, Avego.com has the big advantage of being affiliated with iPhone. This downloadable application lets motorists create a social network of vehicles and passengers who are traveling in the same direction. In… Continue reading Ride-sharing Made Simple
Mapflow Avego wins role to provide pioneering mobile traveler information and guiding system to Madrid
Mapflow Avego wins role to provide pioneering mobile traveler information and guiding system to Madrid The OPTI-TRANS project will enable the first system to optimize real-time passenger information for buses, metro trains and shared transport. DUBLIN, Ireland (12 March 2009, Dublin) – Mapflow Avego has been selected to work with a consortium of leading European… Continue reading Mapflow Avego wins role to provide pioneering mobile traveler information and guiding system to Madrid
Our Right to Self Reliance – 22 February
….The next very cool and very recent development, at least in the States, is Avego , an ambitious and varied start-up that connects carpoolers via an Iphone app. GPS, GNS, GIS, iPhone and web technologies are used to dynamically match a driver’s spare seats on a journey with a passenger’s request for transport. Drivers receive… Continue reading Our Right to Self Reliance – 22 February
Greater Greater Washington – 10 February
Lunch links: We’re back….Sorry for depriving you of your regular dose of exciting livable and walkable communities news….Avego is trying to to create a market to fill empty seats in private cars on the daily commute…. greatergreaterwashington
Going Green – 30 January
….Okay, I will admit it. I am as addicted to my Barackberry as our new president, but I do have occasional iPhone envy. Especially when I read about the cool green apps you can get for it:…. Avego – This iPhone app lets you figure out ride sharing. Save on gas and emissions, plus you… Continue reading Going Green – 30 January
Understanding Avego Shared Transport
The big idea behind Avego Shared Transport is to ensure that there are transport options available on every road, turning wasted seats into spare capacity for commuters.
PSFK Hamburg – 23 January
Emtpy Seat Travelling Reconsidered….With the economy in decline and peak oil in the back of our minds, many of us are rethinking the way we travel….In December, The New York Times featured an elucidating article about iPhone applications (Avego Shared Transport and Carticipate) that aim to establish on-the-fly rideshares within a community….The idea of flexible… Continue reading PSFK Hamburg – 23 January