Rural Carpool: The Platform for Self-Organizing Rural Transit

	“. . . helps each of us save $$$ and CO2 -- what's not to like?”
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Rural Carpool has evolved!
We have become smaller and bigger!

The "Commons Communities" platform provides small rural towns with a digital infrastructure for self-organization. The Tatamagouche Commons is one of three "pilot projects" that demonstrate the possibilities!

Read the link above for more information -- and if you're from River John or Pugwash or Wallace, and know someone who might want to start up a Commons in their own small rural town, send them to the Tatamagouche Commons demo, and they'll figure out how to contact us!

Rural Carpool is designed from the ground up to help citizens in a small rural region self-organize carpooling and cost-sharing for occasional trips to larger towns or special events.

Rural Carpool is not like a taxi, nor like Über or Lyft, nor like any bus or transit service -- it works where those systems are most challenged by low population density. Rural Carpool simply helps our members self-organize occasional longer trips to larger towns, decreasing the costs for every traveler.

Our testbed region is the North Shore of Nova Scotia*, where we identified most of the small region's villages, towns, cities, and travel routes. Then we constructed 115 fake identities, and created thousands of past and future Trips within the region, to help you (and us!) get a sense of how Rural Carpool can work. People looked at the Demo, and found it compelling, signed up, and gave us great feedback.

We've been improving and expanding ever since.

If you live in our rural region (Pugwash to New Glasgow to Truro and Halifax), and want to save $$$ and CO2, then Register Now to become a North Shore Carpool Community member! Never any costs or obligations for membership.

If you're NOT from the North Shore of Nova Scotia, then please do NOT sign up -- since it'll do you no good. For interested visitors from afar, like you, the working Demo is currently your best bet for understanding the project. You can contact michael @ ruralcarpool .com for more information. Before doing that, we recommend that you first familiarize yourself with the region's geography, so you can understand the towns that any pretend Demo Member is coming from, and might be wanting to go.

* The home region of Michael Jensen, the founder of Rural Carpool.

In The News:
*Pictou Advocate, June 22, 2023:* "Rural Carpool coming to the North Shore," by Jake Boudrot *Truro News/Saltwire, May 17, 2023:* "Developing a rural ride-share platform on the North Shore," by Richard MacKenzie
Print Documents:
Rural Carpool Tri-fold Brochure (2 pp., PDF)
3 Rules and 4 Tips for Making the Most of Rural Carpool (8 pp., PDF)
Rural Carpool Video Intro (77 secs)


Rural Carpool Status Update, July 29 Zoom Skip to 12:38 if you're already familiar with Rural Carpool. (Michael recommends x1.25 or x1.5 speed!)


Rural Carpool Context Video (8 min 14 secs) (from when it was still called "Rural RideShare"):

Above: Video overview of Rural Carpool (formerly "Rural RideShare") (8:14), by founder Michael Jensen: the rural context, a tour of the site itself, and a call to action, encouraging you to Sign Up for the July 14 soft Launch!
For more info: michael@ruralcarpool.com
Great shout-out from our MLA: