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Demand-responsive bus service of the Oxford Bus Company in 2018. Demand-responsive transport (DRT), also known as demand-responsive transit, demand-responsive service, [1] Dial-a-Ride [2] transit (sometimes DART), [3] flexible transport services, [4] Microtransit, [5] Non-Emergency Medical Transport (NEMT), [5] Carpool [6] or On-demand bus service is a form of shared private or quasi-public ...
Casual carpooling is an efficient transportation option for these commuters, while environmental sustainability benefits are a positive byproduct. Seventy-five percent of casual carpool users were previously public transit riders, and over 10% formerly drove alone. [31] In the U.S., the modal share of ridesharing has declined since the 1970s ...
Slugging, [1] also known as casual carpooling and flexible carpooling, [2] is the practice of forming ad hoc, informal carpools for purposes of commuting, essentially a variation of hitchhiking. A driver picks up these non-paying passengers (known as "slugs" or "sluggers") at key locations, as having these additional passengers means that the ...
Peer-to-peer carsharing is a form of person-to-person lending or collaborative consumption, as part of the sharing economy. [1] The business model is closely aligned with traditional car clubs such as Streetcar or Zipcar (est. in 2000), [2] but replaces a typical fleet with a ‘virtual’ fleet made up of vehicles from participating owners. [3]
Ride-sharing has been a concept since World War II, but it wasn't until around the 1990s when programs started to digitize. [1] Some of the first telephone-based ride-matching programs were Bellevue Smart Traveler from the University of Washington, Los Angeles Smart Traveler from Los Angeles's Commuter Transportation Services, and Rideshare Express from Sacramento Rideshare. [1]
Curt Hoff, a longtime banker in Iowa who now is a professor of practice in finance at Iowa State University, said the last available report on Citizens, dated Sept. 30, showed it had charged off ...
Home to the University of Iowa, the city has a population of 77,000 people. It is located in Johnson County, which makes up 614 square miles and also includes Coralville and North Liberty.
A sign encouraging carpooling during the gas shortage resulting from the 1973 oil crisis. Carpooling is the sharing of car journeys so that more than one person travels in a car, and prevents the need for others to have to drive to a location themselves. Carpooling is considered a Demand-Responsive Transport (DRT) service. [1]