shared ride

Joint vehicle trip

A shared ride is transportation where multiple passengers traveling in the same direction split the cost of a single vehicle.

The term applies to carpooling arrangements and ride-hailing services like UberPool or Lyft Line, where strangers heading roughly the same way share a car: I took a shared ride from the airport to save money.

The tradeoff is lower cost for longer travel time and less privacy.

carpoolShared commute arrangement
carpool laneMulti-occupant vehicle roadway
rideshareShared vehicle transit
UberApp-summoned car service
LyftRide-summoning service

commute · passenger · driver · vanpool · split · fare · surge pricing · pickup · dropoff · lane · app · pool · destination · route · stranger · backseat · detour · hitch

Categories

shared things
rideshareUber, Lyft, rideshare, taxi, cab
carpoolingcarpool, rideshare, carpool lane, HOV lane, carpool buddy
shared transitcarpool, carpooling, carshare, rideshare, vanpool
Angkotpassengers, fare, driver, route, stop
public transitbus, train, subway, metro, tram

Opposites

passenger exclusivity

shared ridesolo travel

Journeying without companions

private car · limousine service · limousine · single occupancy · single rider

vehicle ownership/control

shared rideself-driving

Operating without human control

private ownership · walking · cycling

Family

share, shared, sharing, shares, sharer, shareable, ride, rides, rode

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