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Welcome to findcarpool.ca,
your ultimate carpool and rideshare connector!
Locate carpool or rideshare here!
Register, search and find carpool/rideshare FOR FREE!
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Search for Carpool or Rideshare
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Enter start and destination points in Google Maps style: Street, City, Province
(i.e. "2290 Yonge St, Toronto, ON")
or
major intersection (i.e. "Yonge St & Eglinton St West, Toronto, ON")
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How many times did you ask yourself:
What can I do to help to save the environment?
How can I take part in fighting for great cause?
What can I do to make the differnce?
And the answer could be just this:
Carpool!
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By carpooling/ridesharing you help:
Yourself
Your community
Your country
And Our planet, too!
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Evgeni Reingold, the webmaster
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5 simple steps. |
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Register as
Driver
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Passenger
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Activate your account (link sent to your E-Mail)
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Login
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Search for rideshare
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Join/Invite
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Quick facts about carpooling. |
Carpool (also known as car-sharing, ridesharing, lift-sharing and covoiturage),
is the shared use of a car by the driver and one or more passengers, usually for commuting.
Carpool/rideshare arrangements and schemes involve varying degrees of formality and regularity.
Formal carpool projects have been around in a structured form since the mid-1970s.
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Canadians’ reliance on the single occupancy vehicle (SOV)
as their preferred choice of transportation continues to contribute to global warming.
According to Environment Canada, overall transportation represents the largest
single source of Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for 27% of the total.
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Carpool/rideshare reduces the costs involved in repetitive or long distance driving by sharing cars,
sharing rental charges, or paying the main car owner. Some countries have introduced high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes
to encourage carpooling/ridesharing and use of public transport, to combat rising traffic congestion. In wartime, carpool/ridesharing
was encouraged to save oil. In reducing the number of cars on the road, carpool/rideshare decreases pollution and the need for parking space,
and in a global perspective, reduces greenhouse gas emissions.
Shared driving carpooling can also reduce driving stress.
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About this site: Carpool connector and rideshare finder.
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The purpose of site findcarpool.ca
is to help carpoolers find sutiable carpool or rideshare.
The site is intended, but not limited, to by used by Canada residents. And thanks to limitless of Google Maps the site can be used anywhere in the world.
The main idea of finding a carpool/rideshare is to match carpool/rideshare start and end points using geographic search.
Latitudes and longitudes of carpool/rideshare start and end points determined using Google Maps APIs,
and then a request is being sent to the database to find any carpool/rideshare with latitude and longitude same as desired or within selected Radius.
In addition to start and end points the carpool/rideshare matching process is using weekday, start and return time.
A carpooler can limit the search to their company/school only by providing a name of the company/school.
It is absolutely free to use this site.
Note
The site has no outside funding. All maintenance and development costs are coming out of packet.
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Site News |
October 25, 2011.
York Regional Transit (York region, Ontario, Canada) is on strike. The strike started on October 24, 2011 and there is no new talks yet.
It may take weeks to resolve the issue.
July 21, 2011.
We have new member from Slovakia. Welcome!
June 9, 2011.
We have new member from Hong Kong. Welcome!
June 1, 2011.
Quick Search function in right top corner of the home page has been replaced with Simple Search.
Just click the button and the system will display search results based on you carpool/rideshare post start and destination points.
If you need to perform more detailed search clinck on Advanced Search link next to Search button.
May 27, 2011.
The site, findcarpool.ca holds position on first page of seach results (for word carpool) in Bing (MSN Search) and Yahoo Canada.
New members from Solomon Islands, India and New Zealand are welcomed to findcarpool.ca.
May 17, 2011.
Our site, findcarpool.ca became international.
The site is on the first page of Google search results (search for carpool word). Thanks to such visiblilty
several carpool/rideshare seekers from United States, United Kingdom and Australia are registered on findcarpool.ca
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Start your carpool or share your ride now!
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If you are reading this message, you are truly wanted to make a difference in this world.
And while carpool may only be a small step, it is still a step in right direction.
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