the practice of sharing a car with other commuters as a means of lessening traffic congestion or pollution
New Directions offers discounts and incentives to ease your commute when you usepublic transit or ridesharing.
ridesharing in American English
(ˈraidˌʃɛərɪŋ)
adjective
1. Also: rideshare
of or pertaining to sharing rides or transportation, esp. among commuters
The agency was set up to devise a ridesharing program
noun
2.
an act or instance of sharing rides or transportation, esp. by commuters
A statewide campaign to encourage ridesharing would reduce overcrowding on the highways
Word origin
[ride + share1 + -ing1]-ing is a suffix of nouns formed from verbs, expressing the action of the verb or itsresult, product, material, etc. (the art of building; a new building; cotton wadding). It is also used to form nouns from words other than verbs (offing; shirting). Verbal nouns ending in -ing are often used attributively (the printing trade) and in forming compounds (drinking song). In some compounds (sewing machine), the first element might reasonably be regarded as the participial adjective, -ing, the compound thus meaning “a machine that sews,” but it is commonly taken as a verbalnoun, the compound being explained as “a machine for sewing”
Examples of 'ridesharing' in a sentence
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Among them, ridesharing has received substantial attention from decision-makers around the world.
Yanwei Li, Araz Taeihagh, Martin de Jong 2018, 'The Governance of Risks in Ridesharing: A Revelatory Case from Singapore', Energieshttp://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/11/5/1277. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Some governments prohibit the adoption of ridesharing altogether, while other governments promote it.
Yanwei Li, Araz Taeihagh, Martin de Jong 2018, 'The Governance of Risks in Ridesharing: A Revelatory Case from Singapore', Energieshttp://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/11/5/1277. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Which social groups are the most active users of ridesharing?
Dóra Bálint, András Trócsányi 2016, 'New ways of mobility: the birth of ridesharing. A case study from Hungary', Hungarian Geographical Bulletinhttp://ojs3.mtak.hu/index.php/hungeobull/article/view/600. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Finally, the impacts of key factors on ridesharing behavior in numerical examples are discussed.
Meng Li, Guowei Hua, Haijun Huang 2018, 'A Multi-Modal Route Choice Model with Ridesharing and Public Transit', Sustainabilityhttps://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/10/11/4275. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
However, there are some internal differences within this region indicating the service heterogeneity of ridesharing.
Ye Ma, Biying Yu, Meimei Xue 2018, 'Spatial Heterogeneous Characteristics of Ridesharing in Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Regionof China', Energieshttps://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/11/11/3214. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
To obtain initial data, subjective tests are carried out using questionnaires and their results are used to determine ridesharing profiles.
Renata Lopes Rosa, Eduardo Lucio Lasmar Junior, Demóstenes Zegarra Rodríguez 2018, 'A Recommendation System for Shared-Use Mobility Service through Data Extracted fromOnline Social Networks', Journal of Communications Software and Systemshttps://jcomss.fesb.unist.hr/index.php/jcomss/article/view/602. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This paper presents a mathematical model to design an enhanced ridesharing system with meet points and users' preferable time windows.
Xin Li, Sangen Hu, Wenbo Fan, Kai Deng 2018, 'Modeling an enhanced ridesharing system with meet points and time windows', PLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0195927. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
To reduce the negative externalities of cars, ridesharing and public transit are advocated as cost-effective and more environmentally sustainable alternatives.
Yuanyuan Zhang, Yuming Zhang 2018, 'Exploring the Relationship between Ridesharing and Public Transit Use in the UnitedStates', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Healthhttp://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/15/8/1763. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
In this article, we address the question of how risks involved in ridesharing are governed over time.
Yanwei Li, Araz Taeihagh, Martin de Jong 2018, 'The Governance of Risks in Ridesharing: A Revelatory Case from Singapore', Energieshttp://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/11/5/1277. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)