Goodbye myUMBC Casual Carpooling website, hello Zimride!

The University of Maryland, Baltimore County is excited to introduce a new partnership with Zimride by Enterprise, a service of Enterprise Rent-A-Car, as an alternative transportation option on campus. 

Zimride is an online ride-matching service that leverages the power of social media by integrating with Facebook, to connect drivers and passengers within a private University of Maryland Baltimore County network heading to the same area. It is free for students, faculty and staff to join the network and begin searching for matches or posting rides of their own.

Zimride provides students an easy way to take weekend trips or go home to visit on breaks by sharing a ride with another student.  Students share the expense of the trip, and also reduce traffic, air pollution and parking congestion by riding together.

 

Faculty and staff members can save time, money and stress on their daily commute to campus by using Zimride to form a carpool. The innovative search feature allows users to post their commute, including arrival and departure times, to find matches in the network. 

Here’s how it works:

• The UMBC program is available only to students, faculty and staff. Members of the campus community interested in using Zimride must have a valid UMBC ID to sign up. 

• In just a few seconds on zimride.com/umbc, drivers and passengers can set up a profile, search for open seats, or post their ride and destination safely and securely. 

• The platform’s unique approach to ride-matching allows members to link their profile to their Facebook page.

The Zimride offering is part of the university’s focus on sustainable transportation, which combines car sharing, ride matching, university shuttle service, bicycling and public transportation to meet the mobility needs of students, faculty and staff.