Press Release

iCarpool – Helping commuters find co-workers or neighbors for carpool

Redmond, WA – Oct 5 2006 – Interact Soft Inc announced the launch of www.iCarpool.com today. The website is state-of-the-art and provides high precision carpool matches to maximize savings through carpool. It provides unique features like allowing a user to affiliate with communities and scope carpool partner search within the user’s communities. This enables exciting opportunities like finding co-workers or neighbors from the user’s residential community to carpool for daily commute, an event like a baseball game or music concert and even a long distance trip. It can also translate to real savings for large employers with thousands of employees with new scenarios like, making it possible for co-workers traveling to a different location – say a conference – to find each other and connect. The current version caters to all regions of USA and Canada.

As surprising as it seems, a large number of carpool matching websites on the internet offer carpool as mere lists with no computerized trip matching capabilities. Some may use primitive listing by zip code or city, so finding great matches and enabling users to maximize savings through carpool is not something they can do. Additionally, most of the websites make personal and contact information readily available to any user searching for carpool matches. Users have little or no control over who gets to review their personal and contact information.

Solutions which enable new scenarios will pave the way to grow the carpool community and help new users commit to carpool. The solutions will require sustained innovation in technologies like private interactions, mobile phones, live traffic incidents and so on. Interact Soft Inc is looking forward to provide such sustained innovation working closely with transportation authorities and employers who adopt trip reduction programs.

Lakshmi adds, “Everyone understands the benefits of carpooling like saving gas, saving time by using carpool lanes, not to mention saving the environment. However, the carpool solutions out there do not make it easy for users to commit to carpooling. For example, you cannot easily find carpool partners who may live in your residential community or work for the same company. Similarly, many solutions just present a large listing of people and their contact numbers without regard for much needed privacy. With, iCarpool we will do much more than solving these issues. In the end, I hope newer and better solutions help people to commit to carpooling and thus grow the carpool community.”