carpooling
Sign in to saveAlso known as ride sharing, high occupancy vehicle, carpool
thumb|upright|A sign encouraging carpooling during the gas shortage resulting from the 1973 oil crisis
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- driving
- Part of
- sharing economy
- Image
- Salmiech panneau covoiturage.jpg
- Has use
- climate change mitigation
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- Commons category
- Carpooling
- different from
- carsharing
- WordLift URL
- data.thenextweb.com/tnw/entity/carpool
- facet of
- car culture
- class of object(s) of occurrence
- car tourism
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- History
- Other forms
- Challenges
- In popular culture
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thumb|upright|A sign encouraging carpooling during the gas shortage resulting from the 1973 oil crisis
Carpooling is the sharing of car journeys so that more than one person travels in a car, and prevents the need for others to have to drive to a location themselves. Carpooling is considered a Demand-Responsive Transport (DRT) service.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “carpooling” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.