RideMatcher: iCommute’s Online Ride Matching System. Would you like to help your employees find the right person to share their commute or bike with to work? iCommute’s RideMatcher is the convenient online tool that will help them make the connection quickly and easily. RideMatcher is simple, easy, and secure. Plus, it helps your company and your employees measure the savings in time, money, and environmental benefits.

Your ridesharing program is just a few keystrokes away. RideMatcher is the latest tool in the iCommute program, which offers commuting alternatives to employers and their employees in the San Diego region.

If you already have a company-sponsored carpool or vanpool program or a comprehensive Commuter Benefit Program in place, we’ll help you add in RideMatcher and get your employees signed up quickly. If you don’t have a program in place, we can help you get one started quickly and easily.

Employers can participate at two levels:

• Network – Employees can search for other rideshare partners using their company e-mail address; no internal administration is required.
• Network Plus – Employees can search for other rideshare partners using their company or personal e-mail. Network Plus access granted to company administrator (Employee Transportation Coordinator, or ETC) with the ability to create customized incentive programs for rideshare participants. It also provides a convenient reporting feature that details how many of your employees are participating in the program and measures the company’s financial and environmental savings, including carbon emission savings.

RideMatcher makes it easy to be Green. These days more companies are trying to measure and reduce their impact on the environment. That’s where RideMatcher comes in. Your company can administer an online rideshare network and watch its environmental savings grow as more commuters participate in the program.

Getting started is easy. Employees go directly to RideMatcher and register for an account. After their account is confirmed via e-mail, they simply log in and enter their most frequent trip (starting and ending point and daily work hours).

RideMatcher then identifies the best matches by proximity and by mode – carpooling, vanpooling, and biking. The system matches them with co-workers or with commuters in the immediate area. No personal information is shared until they approve the match.

TripTracker: Add up your employee’s savings even if they don’t need to ride match. TripTracker is a tool that measures your employees’ alternative commute activities and their savings. Employees simply record their commute trips on a daily or weekly basis. By participating, they may be eligible to win monthly drawings from iCommute, or you can create your own customized incentives (available to companies with “Platinum Network" only).

TripTracker is perfect for people who don’t need to ride match because they use transit, bike to work, work from home, or already have a rideshare partner.

RideMatcher: One habit that’s actually good for you. Whether your employees carpool, vanpool, bike, use transit, or telecommute, the more they log their daily commute trips with RideMatcherTripTracker the more your company’s savings will add up.

Not only will you see what they save, but you’ll help to prove that the San Diego region is growing greener over time. And that can literally mean more funding for transportation programs that help to clear the air and clear our local highways. And clean air can really be habit forming.

Whether your employees are looking to carpool, vanpool, bike to work, or telecommute, RideMatcher will help get them on their way to saving money, reducing stress, and helping the environment.

It also provides a convenient reporting feature so you can see how many of your employees are participating in the program and then measure the company’s financial and environmental savings.

Get started today by contacting an employer representative. Call 511 and say "iCommute" or e-mail us at iCommute@sandag.org.