Ride Sharing

Ride sharing is the activity in which people share transportation for mutual benefit. Ride sharing may or may not involve financial compensation.

The act of ride sharing involves at least two parties. One is the driver, who is providing the vehicle and is also driving it, and the other is the rider, who is traveling as a passenger.

The people participating in ride sharing may or may not know one another but are connected by a mutual decision to share transportation.

Ride sharing has occurred since the advent of transportation and has been far more common in the past than it is today.

Public transportation is an evolution of ride sharing, where the driver is a state or city agency and the riders are the general public.

RideConnect is the only smartphone application that helps socially connected people share rides.

With RideConnect, someone who has a car can make it known to a broad audience that he or she is willing to give a ride if certain conditions are met.

Furthermore, RideConnect allows the participants to do more than share transportation. People can share events by announcing them on the RideBoard.

RideConnect is the first truly social approach to ride sharing.