Carpooling is the easiest and most common ridesharing arrangement. It usually consists of two or more people commuting in an employee-owned vehicle. Sometimes carpoolers share driving responsibilities. In other cases, one person does all the driving and is reimbursed for mileage by his or her riders. An employee can carpool full or part time, with one other person or more, and, when over half the trip is shared, can still be counted as reducing SOV trips to the worksite.
Most employers provide internal ridematch services to all employees.
The ETC will keep a list of people who wish to carpool or vanpool and will try to match people by shift start times and place of origin or stop off points along a route to work. King County Metro maintains the Regional Ridematch System, a database of over 11,000 people who are interested in potential ridesharing opportunities. Some people are already ridesharing but would be willing to include another rider to help with expenses. In about a week you ll receive a list of people who live near you and who have similar destinations and work hours, and information about existing vanpools. Call the people on the list and make carpool or vanpool connections.