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Region K Rideshare Initiative

Alfred Cassidy, MURP, Mobility Manager acassidy@kerrtarcog.org 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.

How do we commute?

• Can anyone tell me, how many transportation

modes does the average individual use to travel in the region?

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Multitude ways of transportation

Bus, Taxi, Vans, ADA, Volunteers, Vouchers, Ridesharing, Bicycles, Pedestrians Private Automobile Rail

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Transportation Service Chart

Family Health Care Educational, Shopping, Recreational Employment Independence

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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

• Complete your Profile
• Name
• Email address
• Password
• Employer Information
• Origin address
• Destination address

• 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

• 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 acassidy@kerrtarcog.org 252-436-2040