A FREE ride-sharing application for the iPhone, Carticipate (www.carticipate.com), was released in October, and already has had more than 10,000 downloads, said Steffen Frost, chief executive of Carticipate in San Francisco.
After you register with Carticipate and set up a profile, he said, "other people with iPhones that have the application can search for you and find you."
A prospective passenger will see, for instance, that someone is going to Poughkeepsie, New York, he said, and read the profile. "If they are comfortable with that and want a ride, they can organize from there," he said. "We are a matching service."
Hendrik Hilbolling, who lives in The Hague in the Netherlands, uses Carticipate regularly. "My lover lives in France and I go there frequently," he said. Through Carticipate, he shared one of his recent trips to Paris, as well as the expenses for the journey, with a teacher and a film director.
"Trains are expensive," he said. "This is a nice ride, we can talk, and this way is much cheaper."
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