CarShare Online

CarShare Online is available to clients who wish to promote car sharing within their organisation - to encourage 'green travel'. CarShare Online allows staff wishing to share journeys to contact others who live near to them and want to travel at about the same time of day. It works automatically by using your company's email system, ensuring security for those using the system. The software has user-friendly interfacing and uses digital mapping to locate potential sharers.

The system is very flexible and can be tailored for a single organisation or several companies who wish to carshare together. The software can incorporate ‘waypoints' - for example, a public car park - where two or three people can meet and go onwards in one vehicle. It can also be used for optimising trips for company staff to/from airports or to subsidiary offices.

There are two installation options: by accessing a secure server at TRL via an internet web browser; or having the system installed on your company intranet. Both methods have high levels of access security. The Licence fee depends upon the number of employees in the organisation and includes 1 year's support and maintenance.

The main advantages of CarShare Online are:

• friendly, easy to use interface;
• simple to access via the internet or locally via an intranet;
• secure access using passwords;
• can be customised to company requirements;
• requires no staff time to manage;
• regular reports can be tailored to customer requirements;
• secure system based on company email addresses;
• can cover any size of organisation;
• the system can grow with the organisation;
• can accommodate single organisations or groups of companies.