Region K Rideshare Initiative
Region K Rideshare Initiative
Alfred Cassidy, MURP, Mobility Manager [email protected] 252-436-2040
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What is rideshare? Benefits of ridesharing. What is Mobility Management? Mobility Management Initiatives. How do people commute? Multitude ways of transportation. Transportation Service Chart. What is Share the Ride NC?
• Questions!
What is Rideshare?
• An arrangement in which people travel together.
Benefits of Ridesharing • Ridesharing can save you money. • Ridesharing can improve air quality. • Ridesharing conserves non-renewable energy resources. • Ridesharing saves you time.
Mobility Management • Promote, enhance, and enable access to transportation services. • Offer a full range of travel options to the single-occupant vehicle. • Cultivate partnerships and multi-agency activities. • Offer a single point of customer access to multiple travel modes.
Mobility Management Initiatives • Flexible - individuals have to adapt to new transportation needs.
• Innovation - how individuals connect to each other.
• Responsive - recognizing that meeting a individual’s needs is the ultimate goal.
• Safe - providing individuals with a safe, comfortable experience that meet the rider needs.
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How do we commute? • Can anyone tell me, how many transportation modes does the average individual use to travel in the region?
Multitude ways of transportation
Rail Bus, Taxi, Vans, ADA, Volunteers, Vouchers, Ridesharing, Bicycles, Pedestrians
Private Automobile
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Transportation Service Chart Family
Independence
Employment
Health Care
Educational, Shopping, Recreational
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• What is Share the Ride NC? – North Carolina’s statewide ridematching system • Website created to support efforts to improve air quality
– Programs offered • Ridematching (carpool and vanpool) • Single Trip Matching • Commute Calendar
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Registration is Quick and Easy Visit www.strnc.org and select Get Started! to register
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Complete your Profile
Name Email address Password Employer Information Origin address Destination address
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Commuting Profile – Profile Details Home to Work Home to School Park & Ride to Work – Matching Options Driver Passenger – Commute Schedule 9:00am – 5:00pm M-F 8:30am – 4:30pm M-F
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Find Matches – Matches are sorted based on the criteria entered during registration
Location (Radius/Route) Schedule Smoker/Non-smoker Male/Female
– Contact your Matches through STRNC
Determine cost Determine vehicle and drivers Decide pickup/drop-off location Decide pickup/drop-off time Decide radio station
– Safety Meet your matches before getting in a vehicle
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The Commute Calendar tool measures your alternative commute activities and their financial and environmental savings.
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Commute options include: Carpooling Vanpooling Riding the bus vanpooling Walking or bicycling Working from home Working a compressed work week schedule
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The Single Trip Matching tool is used to find partners to share a ride for one time round trips.
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Let’s say if you wanted to go shopping or you wanted go to your favorite restaurant, you can input your trip origin and destination; the single trip matching tool will match you with individuals who are traveling in the same location.
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You and your trip partners benefit by sharing the cost of gas and parking to reduce emissions.
Questions
Alfred Cassidy, Mobility Manager [email protected] 252-436-2040
Alfred Cassidy, MURP, Mobility Manager [email protected] 252-436-2040
Outline • • • • • • • •
What is rideshare? Benefits of ridesharing. What is Mobility Management? Mobility Management Initiatives. How do people commute? Multitude ways of transportation. Transportation Service Chart. What is Share the Ride NC?
• Questions!
What is Rideshare?
• An arrangement in which people travel together.
Benefits of Ridesharing • Ridesharing can save you money. • Ridesharing can improve air quality. • Ridesharing conserves non-renewable energy resources. • Ridesharing saves you time.
Mobility Management • Promote, enhance, and enable access to transportation services. • Offer a full range of travel options to the single-occupant vehicle. • Cultivate partnerships and multi-agency activities. • Offer a single point of customer access to multiple travel modes.
Mobility Management Initiatives • Flexible - individuals have to adapt to new transportation needs.
• Innovation - how individuals connect to each other.
• Responsive - recognizing that meeting a individual’s needs is the ultimate goal.
• Safe - providing individuals with a safe, comfortable experience that meet the rider needs.
7.
How do we commute? • Can anyone tell me, how many transportation modes does the average individual use to travel in the region?
Multitude ways of transportation
Rail Bus, Taxi, Vans, ADA, Volunteers, Vouchers, Ridesharing, Bicycles, Pedestrians
Private Automobile
8.
9.
Transportation Service Chart Family
Independence
Employment
Health Care
Educational, Shopping, Recreational
10.
11.
• What is Share the Ride NC? – North Carolina’s statewide ridematching system • Website created to support efforts to improve air quality
– Programs offered • Ridematching (carpool and vanpool) • Single Trip Matching • Commute Calendar
12.
13.
Registration is Quick and Easy Visit www.strnc.org and select Get Started! to register
•
Complete your Profile
Name Email address Password Employer Information Origin address Destination address
17.
•
Commuting Profile – Profile Details Home to Work Home to School Park & Ride to Work – Matching Options Driver Passenger – Commute Schedule 9:00am – 5:00pm M-F 8:30am – 4:30pm M-F
•
Find Matches – Matches are sorted based on the criteria entered during registration
Location (Radius/Route) Schedule Smoker/Non-smoker Male/Female
– Contact your Matches through STRNC
Determine cost Determine vehicle and drivers Decide pickup/drop-off location Decide pickup/drop-off time Decide radio station
– Safety Meet your matches before getting in a vehicle
•
The Commute Calendar tool measures your alternative commute activities and their financial and environmental savings.
•
Commute options include: Carpooling Vanpooling Riding the bus vanpooling Walking or bicycling Working from home Working a compressed work week schedule
•
The Single Trip Matching tool is used to find partners to share a ride for one time round trips.
•
Let’s say if you wanted to go shopping or you wanted go to your favorite restaurant, you can input your trip origin and destination; the single trip matching tool will match you with individuals who are traveling in the same location.
•
You and your trip partners benefit by sharing the cost of gas and parking to reduce emissions.
Questions
Alfred Cassidy, Mobility Manager [email protected] 252-436-2040
