King County Metro Offering Discounted Carpooling Trips
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Try dynamic, flexible carpooling with Scoop or Waze Carpooling and King County Metro will help pay for your ride (or offer higher reimbursement for drivers)
From King County Metro:
Metro is partnering with private ride-matching companies, bringing you incentives and helping you find your best carpool options. The first step for riders is to choose an app and find a match. Here’s a list of carpool apps and websites.
Carpooling has never been easier—just follow these simple steps:
- Download a free carpool app* or create an account atRideshareOnline.com.
- Enter your trip locations and times.
- Get matched with neighbors or co-workers going your way.
- Book a ride and enjoy the benefits.
*Note that service areas, pricing, and user experiences vary.
Scoop
A mobile app that finds you the most efficient carpool match, lets you schedule individual trips for maximum flexibility, and facilitates payments from riders to drivers.
- Service area: Residential areas across King County and select work areas
- Scheduling trips: Separate scheduling for morning and evening trips. Schedule your morning trip by 9:00pm the night before. Evening trips can be scheduled until 3:00pm on the same day. You'll be notified of a match a few minutes after each matching period.
- Cost for riders: Variable, viewable before booking
- Driver reimbursement: Variable, viewable before booking
- Incentives: For a limited time only, Metro will provide discounts for riders and higher reimbursements for drivers. The application of incentives may vary based on your employer’s partnership with Scoop.
- Choice of carpool partner: Scoop's algorithm automatically matches you with another carpooler based on the most efficient trip.
- Safety features: Motor-vehicle history check for drivers, required photos, phone verification, monitored feedback, and optional coworker/Facebook friend filter.
- Guaranteed Ride Home: If you carpool in the morning as a rider and are not matched in the evening, Scoop will cover the cost of your alternate transportation home. More info here.
- Languages: English
Waze Carpool
A mobile app that lets you choose from the most efficient carpool matches, lets you schedule individual trips for maximum flexibility, and facilitates payments from riders to drivers.
- Service area: Washington State
- Scheduling trips: Up to one week prior or in real time. One to two days in advance is recommended./li>
- Cost for rider: For a limited time only, $2 for all rides starting or ending in King County. Costs are always viewable before booking.
- Driver earnings: As much as $0.54/mile with occasional bonuses available. Viewable before booking.
- Incentives: For a limited time only, $2 flat-rate trips for riders and a $20 bonus for new riders/drivers when referred by a friend.
- Choice of carpool partner: Choose between matches or filter for co-workers, same gender or private groups.
- Safety features: Photo, rating, optional same-gender/coworker filter, social profile links
- Guaranteed ride home: Not through app, but available through Metro's Just One Trip program.
- Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Hebrew
Rideshare Online
A website that shows you the most efficient carpool matches and lets you contact potential carpoolers.
- Service area: Washington and Oregon
- Scheduling trips: Any time (generally ongoing carpools)
- Cost for rider: Up to the rider/driver
- Driver earnings: Up to the rider/driver
- Incentives: Check available rewards (login required)
- Choice of carpool partner: Choose between matches or restrict to co-workers
- Safety features: Workplace verification
- Guaranteed ride home: Not through app, but available through Metro's Just One Trip program.
- Languages: English, Spanish; translation services available by phone at 206-625-4500 (8-5, M-F)
- WA Relay: Yes