Do your bit to reduce pollution, traffic congestion and help the environment. One of our many challenges planning events is the effort to get people to and from the locations of an event, lodging and airports. We look at public transportation to reduce event costs and the next option is always a transportation vendor that will have an effect on the bottom line. However, with the economy on everyone’s mind and the ever tightening event budgets, we suggest really looking at the effects of carpooling.

There’s a good chance that many of the people attending any particular event will have rented a car or have driven there own car if they live locally. Carpooling doesn’t just stop at getting around throughout the events duration. You could even carpool if you live a few hours away to save on the airfare.

Automobiles still account for one of the largest sources of pollution. Millions of people drive alone for commute, long distance trips or personal trips such as a shopping trip or an event. We suggest taking a look into resources that connect people who have an interest in carpooling or have a common destination.

iCarpool makes carpooling easier than ever before - through sustained innovation iCarpool creates an opportunity for a grass roots movement to fundamentally change drive alone patterns.

What is iCarpool?

iCarpool is an online service which helps you find carpool partners. Unlike a rideshare bulletin board, carpool listing service or zip code matching service, iCarpool uses high precision trip matching to find the best carpool match. Whether you wish to drive, ride or share - iCarpool will help you find great carpool matches for all your trips. iCarpool is one of the fastest growing carpool networks today. Sign up to use iCarpool and start carpooling today!

If you’re still not convinced to think about this option, here’s ten great reasons why you should car pool.