Presented at Creating Sustainable Mobility seminar in Houston, Texas, October 14, 2014, by Paul Steinberg. Paul Steinberg is Vice President of Business Development for Carma Carpool, a mobile transportation applications provider.

1. Get there together

2. What is the Problem?
The average annual cost of driving a sedan in the US = $9,122
The average passenger vehicle emits 5.1 tons of CO2 per year,
making our car culture responsible for 33% of US emissions
The typical American spends a whole week
and wastes 19 gallons of fuel sitting in traffic every year
Most of us drive to work alone, i.e. with three empty seats!

3. Potential for improved vehicle throughput on highways
Decades to replace existing cars
Driverless Cars may be the Future

4. Riderless Cars are the Reality Today
A road that is 100% full is utilizing only 25% capacity
We can no longer afford to build our way out

5. Shared Use Mobility
Source: Susan Shaheen Ph.D. of UC Berkeley’s Transportation Sustainability Research Center

6. Save up to 75% compared to the cost of driving
Reduce your dependency on fuel, reduce your carbon footprint
Get access to carpool/HOV/express lanes and get your free time back
Spend time working or socializing with your neighbors - have some fun!
Shared Use Mobility

7. Public Providers
Ladders of accessibility and ADA
Usage is trending up in urban markets
Subsidized through federal government programs

8. Publicly Available Transit Data
Once data is open then developers will identify opportunities to grow
and integrate system capabilities

9. Roadside Carpooling
SFBay daily: 12,500 people, 4,470 cars avoided, 47.7 tons of carbon
$180 million in annual operating costs per year for SFMTA
Self-sustaining, zero capital investment, running for 40 years

10. Carma Carpooling
Real-time awareness of supply and demand
Automated matching with neighbors / colleagues
Patented technology to GPS verify vehicle occupancy in real-time

11. Carma is Legal Ridesharing
Transportation
Network Companies
Ridesharing
Taxis are great, but we are 100% focused on the commute

12. Connected Commuting
Paul | Sean
Open APIs for real-time sharing of locations and occupancy
Real-time toll discounts and alerts for verified carpools
Real-time SOV / HOV travel times

13. Carma SFBay
World’s first public-private partnership of real-time ridesharing

14. Carma Bergen
World’s longest-running real-time ridesharing community.

15. Carma ATX
World’s first program for occupancy-verified toll discounts

16. Carma Houston
Districts; Energy Corridor, Uptown, Westchase, Memorial City, Downtown
Private; Clear Channel, Texas Taxi, Ridescout, NuRide
Public agencies; TxDOT, METRO, HGAC, City of Houston