How Can You Minimize Your Transportation Carbon Footprint?

This page provides resources for exploring alternative modes of transportation. We have pulled together resources for people to use ride share, carpool, public transportation, shared vehicle and many other solutions.

We want you to think about how you are using the transportation available to you. Ask yourself these questions:

1. How am I using transportation?
2. Do I like the mode I choose?
3. Is my method of transportation the most ecological available to me?
4. If not, is there a way I can offset the carbon to achieve a better carbon footprint for the day?

We think about using transportation and we expand the term usability to include not just ease of use, but practical use, ecofriendly and economical use of transportation.   We think of usability of transportation as a holistic experience. This includes the user experience, and balancing that with beginning from choosing which mode of transportation

Global TransportationResources

ERideShare

eRideshare.com is a site that helps people find carpools and share local and national travel. They connect people, both individually and through groups and companies.  The site includes  a ride board for all locations.

They operate in most cities in the USA, as well as many countries including Europe, Israel, India, Australia, Mexico, Pakistan, Philippines and many others.     http://www.erideshare.com/

The DMOZ Open Directory Project

The portal claims “The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.” IT does appear to have a lot of information on everything. IF one searches for “Europe Transportation” you will get to a very informative, but a bit hard to navigate. It shows many possible modes of transportation in many countries and languages in Europe.  http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Transportation/

 In addition, there are links for Transportation in Asia:    http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/South_America/Transportation/

Another page points to Transportation in the Middle East:  http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Middle_East/Transportation/

 Transportation in South America:  http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/South_America/Transportation/

 Transportation in Central America:  http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Central_America/Transportation/

Didik

Didik.com is a website that offers several different alternative vehicles. These vehicles and human, solar and electric powered vehicles.  http://www.didik.com/dhv.htm

Canada

Dockside Green

This website is for the Vancouver, British Columbia area and provides rides share, public transportation, bicycle trail and other alternate modes of transportation.  http://docksidegreen.com/sustainability/eco-friendly/alternative-modes-of-transportation.html

United States

Zipcar

Zipcar allow people to share cars in various  locations around the USA. The service provides members the ability to reserve cars and unlock them using a Zipcar. There is links on the website to help a user calculate how much they will save by using Zipcar.  http://www.zipcar.com/index

Rideshare Company

Rideshare Company operates the third largest vanpool network in the country. This goal is to make the commute to work more friendly and green.   http://www.erideshare.com/

Divide The Ride

This service is designed to help families create safe and energy efficient carpools in their local area.  http://www.dividetheride.com/Index.aspx

Carpool Expert

This website is a social network designed to get people together for carpools and ride share. The usability is poor, but the community seems strong.  http://www.carpoolexpert.com/ride-share-signup.php?gclid=CLORlsO66ZYCFQQrFQodsktwPQ

USA Cities

Boulder Colorado

This website has suggestion for reducing your carbon footprint, how to get better gas mileage and alternate modes of transportation.  http://www.bouldercounty.org/health/environ/airquality/outdoorair/transportationAlt.htm

Way To Go Seattle 

waytogo is a government sponsored website devoted to helping people get around in a more eco friendly manner. This includes challenges and incentive plans for citizens of the Seattle area to use transportation in a sustainable, and usable manner.   http://www.seattle.gov/waytogo/

 This section will show you different alternatives for transportation around the Seattle area. http://www.seattle.gov/waytogo/providers.htm

Get Around St. Louis

Get Around St. Louis is a portal to the many alternate modes of transportation available to the citizens of St. Louis. These opportunities to provide greener modes of transportation include rideshare, public transportation, bicycle and pedestrian pathways and road systems for automobiles. The layout is clear and the usability is good.  http://www.getaroundstl.com/gettingaround.aspx.

Denver

The city of Denver, Colorado has a page on it's website that has direct links to Public Transit, Ride Share and Bike paths to help people travel more eco friendly.  http://www.denvergov.org/CCOB/AlternateModesofTransportation/tabid/380606/Default.aspx

Corvallis, Oregon

http://www.ci.corvallis.or.us/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=466&Itemid=409

Miami, Florida

This city has their own website with information for ride share and alternate modes of transportation for the local area.  http://www.mvrpc.org/tr/altTrans.php

SOUTH AMERICA

The Transportation Directory

This website is a listing of all known website hat provide information about transportation in South America. It is comprehensive.  http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5355/sindex.html

EUROPE 

Google Directory

Google Directory also has large listing for transportation in European countries, but the site is only presented in English.  http://www.google.com/Top/Regional/Europe/Transportation/

E-carpool

Ecarpool.com is a central website for setting up carpool and ride share in Europe. The website allows users to evaluate each other, and this helps create a sense of trust from the users. The system allows users to input cities into the system and has a price calculator to help calculate fares, if necessary.  http://e-carpool.eu/

Go Nomad

Provides a portal to many options for travel in Europe. This site shows different way to travel in Europe by, car, boat, bus or bicycle.  http://www.gonomad.com/transports/0105/javins_transpicks.html

BBC Green

This site has stories of green transportation and trips in Europe. There are suggestions and examples for people to travel in a more eco friendly way, as well as other ways to be green.  http://www.bbcgreen.com/Travel/European-Holidays/Eastern-Europe

ASIA

Hong Kong Travel

This website has links for many different types of transportation in the Hong Kong area. There is also a link for the Octopus card, which is an essential item for travel in Hong Kong.  http://www.hong-kong-travel.org/Transportation.asp

China Highlights

This website focuses on China and has a great page on traveling throughout the countries. The website has links for each mode of transportation that provide a lot of good information about each mode.  http://www.chinahighlights.com/travelguide/transportation/

Japan Guide

This website links for different modes of transportation in Japan. This will provide many pages of information for public transportation, private cars, bicycles and many other means of travel. The graphics are a bit drab, but the information is organized in an easy to access manner and is quite useful.  http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e627.html

CARBON OFFSETS

Carbon Fund

This is a simple website that lets you buy carbon offsets. www.carbonfund.org/