The Carpooling Network (and Le Réseau de Covoiturage) is operated by CovoiturageMontreal Inc. The mission of The Carpooling Network, a socially conscious, young, dynamic private company, is to provide our affiliated partners with the tools and support required to manage efficiently a carpooling program.

CovoiturageMontreal Inc. works as a facilitator for people interested in carpooling and does not provide the actual transportation of persons. The Carpooling Network was launched in November 2005 at www.covoituragemontreal.com, thanks to the initiative of two young entrepreneurs who wished to contribute to the environmental cause. The Carpooling Network offers a simple tool to help people interested in carpooling find and contact each other.

The primary mission of The Carpooling Network is to offer affiliated partners the necessary tools and expertise to implement and manage effectively a sustainable mobility program. Furthermore, The Carpooling Network wishes to promote carpooling as an alternate mode of transportation to public transit.

The Carpooling Network has many objectives, which include the reduction of the amount of vehicles on the roads, the reduction of traffic congestion and the reduction of GHG emissions. As an additional objective, The Carpooling Network wishes to work closely with public transit agencies to offer an alternative that will meet the unaddressed needs of users. The software integrated in The Carpooling Network enables companies, institutions, municipalities, transit agencies and any other organization to promote carpooling within their community. Through partnerships, registered members have access to a performing, user-friendly and easy to use tool.

Thanks to an innovative software, The Carpooling Network was able early on to distance itself from other carpooling sites and companies. Unlike other classified-type services, where searching for a carpool partner is an arduous endeavour, The Carpooling Network has the advantage of a performing software that proposes carpooling possibilities to members who have added an itinerary. This software, which is integrated within The Carpooling Network, constantly evolves to meet the needs of the partners who join The Carpooling Network.

Over 40 partners have joined the initiative to promote carpooling in their communities. The Carpooling Network was able to develop industry-unique technologies that enable organizations of all sizes to manage simply and effectively a sustainable mobility program, in both Canada and, more recently, the United States.

In order to make carpooling a successful societal project, we needed to find a solution that would meet the needs of users in particular and society in general. To do this, The Carpooling Network has chosen to develop a business model aimed at partnerships with companies, institutions, municipalities, transit agencies and any other organization wishing to promote carpooling among their community. This way, the big stakeholders of our societies get involved in a simple manner, partners become the masters of their programs and access to The Network is free for all members.

The Carpooling Network is available everywhere in Canada and the United States; we simply have to expand our pool of members.