Finding a ride

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The combination of a remote campus in Ithaca, New York and a significant number of students without cars has resulted in a number of ridesharing options directed at college students but available to the greater Ithaca community.

Contents 1 CUinfo Ride Board 2 Other Options 2.1 GishiGo 2.2 Craigslist 2.3 Zimride

[edit] CUinfo Ride Board

The CUinfo Ride Board has traditionally been a useful resource. It is difficult to place its exact date of creation. Postings on Cornell's Uncle Ezra site indicate it was assembled sometime after October 1989 when a student asked why CUinfo did not contain a ride board. Along with the traditional "bad guy with a car" philosophy, Ezra notes that due to the [former] presence of paper ride boards in student unions, the creation of an addition online ride board would be "counterproductive". Widespread usage of the internet as a communication tool has, of course, changed this.

Cornell University Communications states the following reasons as behind the ending of the CUinfo ride board:

• Coded in a programming language which CIT no longer supports (appears to be coded in PHP)
• Nobody available to write security updates or provide other maintenance for the application

[edit] Other Options

[edit] GishiGo

GishiGo is an earlier rideshare website, based in New York State, which has been operational since 2001. It has built in identity testing thru the PayPal identity exchange. This helps people exchange their identity in a civilized manner. It also has "intermediate city" design. These are leading edge innovations.

[edit] Craigslist

Ithaca's Craiglist rideshare board provides a more public option for rides. It is especially useful for more local travel, as the intended audience of Craiglist is not just college students traveling for break. People may find hostility by anonymous email. The police tend to have many issues nationally with people abusing craigslist.

[edit] Zimride

Zimride is new facebook linked website which is known to email market Ithaca people. The company's Carpool Facebook application allows coordination of passengers with drivers. The application includes ability to view a driver or passenger Facebook profile before asking for a ride. Logan Green (primary developer, UC Santa Barbara graduate), Matt Van Horn, Rajat Suri, John Siegel are responsible for the application's development.