carpooling
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thumb|upright|A sign encouraging carpooling during the gas shortage resulting from the 1973 oil crisis
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thumb|upright|A sign encouraging carpooling during the gas shortage resulting from the 1973 oil crisis
Carpooling is the sharing of car journeys so that more than one person travels in a car, and prevents the need for others to have to drive to a location themselves. Carpooling is considered a Demand-Responsive Transport (DRT) service.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “carpooling” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.