CU Boulder launches custom Zimride rideshare community to enhance faculty, staff and students’ mobility and reduce carbon emissions

CU Boulder announced today that Zimride launched their new rideshare community. The Zimride platform connects CU Boulder community members looking to share their ride through an easy to use private network that will reduce campus traffic, parking difficulties and
provide substantial cost-savings for our community.

Through its website and Carpool application on Facebook, Zimride combines social networks and a proprietary route-matching algorithm to make it easy for users to share seats or find a ride.

“We are excited about the opportunity to significantly decrease our impact on the environment,” said Peter Roper of the CU Environmental Center. “Zimride’s solution is appealing to our students, faculty and staff, which will enable us to reduce congestion and make campus commuting more efficient for everyone.”

Zimride has developed a custom carpool solution to serve CU Boulder’s campus population. Through Zimride’s web-based interface, faculty, staff and students will be able to find others with similar daily commuting patterns or one-time rides needs. Zimride’s system integrates with Facebook to develop trust and feedback among users.

CU Parking Services and Zimride have set the goal of engaging 20% of the CU Boulder campus as Zimriders by the end of the school year.
Starting today, all University students, faculty and staff can access the CU Boulder Zimride system for free at http://zimride.colorado.edu to begin finding and sharing rides.

Driving personal vehicles contributes to 20% of overall C02 emissions, and this partnership marks a significant step in further improving CU Boulder’s sustainable transportation options. Furthermore, personal transportation accounts for almost 20% of household expenditures.
Ridesharing on your daily commutes or on longer one-time trips can save up to thousands of dollars a year.

About Zimride:
Zimride is the largest dedicated carpool technology company in North America with over 300,000 users and has created carpool communities for over 25 of the nation’s most established universities. Zimriders can view others’ profiles for common networks, interests and friends before deciding to share a ride.

For more information on Zimride, visit www.zimride.com