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What is Ride Sharing?

Ride sharing is an arrangement in which a passenger travels in a private vehicle with its owner for free, or with a agreed fee between passenger and vehicle owner. Ride Sharing involves seeking a ride in a vehicle operated by another traveler who is going from-to the same or nearby origin and destinations.

Ridesharing means more ecological and economical transport compared to single occupancy car travel as more than one person can ride in a vehicle meaning less consumption of fuel per person transport kilometer and enabling higher traffic density. These services have mobile optimized webapps and also many have native mobile apps.

Ridesharing may refer to

  • Rideshare, the sharing of vehicles by passengers
    • Carpool, the sharing of car journeys so that more than one person travels in a car; a form of rideshare
    • Vanpool, a form of rideshare
  • Real-time ridesharing, a form of commercial taxi-like service in which vehicles operated by independent contractors are booked over the internet using a third-party matchmaking application
  • Peer-to-peer ridesharing