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Are you interested to carpool or share the occasional ride?

Need a ride ino the city?

Need some bread and milk picked up by a friend on the way home?

Want to save money, avoid parking fines, reduce congestion, get to know your neighbours?

Earn coffee credits for helping your neighbours?

As part of our research into local community sharing, we have designed a web-based mobile application for your smart phone (www.agileride.net) to share your vehicle rides with friends, neighbours or everyone in Moggill, Bellbowire or surrounds.

NOTE: You only share your travel information with the research team and with people that you choose to share it with.

We are looking for people to try out this ridesharing application and to give us some feedback. To thank you for your participation you will receive a $20 voucher after a a 14 day period of use. You will also receive a report about the study - all information anonymised according to QUT ethical research protocols.

If you're interested in participating please read the information below:

Are you looking for people like me?

The research team is looking for males and females over 18 years old who

1. have a smartphone,

2. who travel daily or several times a week within a suburb, between suburbs or into, around and accross Brisbane, and

3. who are interested in carpooling/ridesharing on an ad hoc or regular basis.

 What will you ask me to do?

In stage 1, your participation, which is 100% voluntary, will involve using a web-based mobile application on your smart phone(www.agileride.net) to post your travel for a 14day period. You post when you want or could offer a ride. Your posts are only shared with the research team and with people that you choose to allow to see them. We will show you how to use the application in a face-to-face meeting.

Later, a video recorded interview or workshop based on your preference will be conducted at QUT or another agreed location that will take approximately 1 hour of your time. We will ask you about your exeprience of using the phone based application and for your feedback on the concept, and the app itself.

NOTE: You only share your travel information with the research team and with people that you choose to share it with. 

We'd love feedback on this application from young and old, from people communting to the city, and from people who largely travel within the suburb or just to Kenmore, from people sharing pickups and dropoffs etc. 

I can help! I'd like to try it. What should I do?

Contact Hadi Mirisaee on s.mirisaee@qut.edu.au or 0451409471

Attached PDF

My website is: http://www.agileride.net