Flexible Carpooling to Transit Stations

TRB’s Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) Final Report for Transit IDEA Project 61: Flexible Carpooling to Transit Stations explores a flexible carpooling service designed to increase carpooling to transit stations.

For the purposes of this report, flexible carpooling is defined as a system whereby morning carpools are formed at designated residential meeting places to travel to designated high-volume destinations. Flexible carpooling is characterized by an absence of the trip-by-trip prearrangement found in other carpool formation systems.  Flexible carpooling relies on a sufficient number of people arriving at the meeting place seeking rides and a sufficient number of drivers seeking riders.