For Your Rainy Day Commute Temple Unveils Zimride!

An easy, simple and fun way to hitch a car ride when the weather turns rough making your cycling commute almost impossible is now available! Temple University has partnered with Zimride to launch a social network for ridesharing. The Zimride platform uses Facebook integration to create a fun way to find friends to share commutes or one-time rides. This private network empowers individuals to join together and reduce campus traffic, parking difficulties and provide substantial cost-savings for the Temple community. All University students, faculty and staff can access the free Temple Zimride network at http://zimride.temple.edu. The private system requires a Temple email address to gain access.

Zimride has developed a custom rideshare solution to serve Temple’s campus population. Through Zimride’s web-based interface, faculty, staff and students can find others with similar commuting patterns or one-time rides. As a social network platform with optional Facebook integration, Zimride is fun to use and helps establish trust among users. Just like with Facebook, Zimriders can view profiles for common networks, interests and friends before deciding to share a ride. This new transportation alternative is a fun, easy and sustainable way for everyone to collectively make a difference.

By Tim Broderick, Bike Temple Messenger, April 5, 2011