Factors influencing the success of company-based carpooling programs. University research

Technical Report · Sat May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1976

OSTI ID:7295387

Pun, C F; Kidder, A E

Results are reported of two successive interviews with selected companies in Greensboro, North Carolina which undertook to review workers' interest in carpooling before, during and after the energy crisis. Companies are compared for extent of carpool formation. It is observed that companies which actively encouraged participation in carpool matching programs ended up with higher rates of carpool formation than companies which maintained a passive stance on carpooling. Carpooling appears slightly more prevalent among older workers, and among white collar workers. However, the sample of companies is biased in favor of white collar companies; therefore the relationship between occupation and carpooling remains unsettled. Corporate executives in some of the larger manufacturing concerns in Greensboro were unwilling to promote carpool matching efforts by the firm, because they do not want to invade workers' privacy, because they felt the majority did not want to carpool, and because they did not wish to interfere in the workers' mode choices. Of interest is the fact that in four out of the five companies studied, the percentage of workers carpooling rose after the end of the energy crisis. New patterns of commuting by ridesharing evolved during the days of the gasoline lines, and continued thereafter, spreading to other workers over time.

• Research Organization: North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State Univ., Greensboro (USA). Transportation Inst.
• OSTI ID: 7295387
• Report Number(s): PB-259434; A/T-TI-20-UR-76
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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