A community network for ridesharing is also a community network for many other potential uses. We’ll begin by establishing a mapped network of trips that each of our members regularly takes. Roam™ AI will cross reference these patterns to find potential carpool matches and then share them to members.

Like eBay, the Roam™ marketplace will be 2-sided, with the ability for any member to choose to be a trip driver on one day or a rider on the next day. By having members who drive and also ride, we’ll be able to operate efficiently with a lower saturation in each area.

The Roam™ app is True Ridesharing because it offers real “shared ride” benefits to save on cost and to save our climate in every ride. Uber and Lyft have used the term “ridesharing”, but their services are based on a hired car and driver – that’s ride selling. Our members are already going in the same direction, so with the Roam™ app, every ride is “+1” for the climate compared to a digital taxi service.

Starting small, gaining momentum in a few areas, and then expanding, the Roam™ marketplace will first build the supply (trip drivers) and then add the demand (riders). At first, trip drivers will be paid to go to all the places they already go – even before we have riders. This way, we’ll have patterned routes to match with riders when they join. As each area becomes saturated, more matches will occur faster. We’ll expand from there to connected areas and to other similar locations.

The Roam™ network operates based on shared communities. Instead of calling up a car from the other side of town, we’re matching members with others in the places they frequently go, like their home, work, school, gym, club, or place of worship. And by connecting two or more of them who are heading in the same direction, we save up to 75% for the member who drives, and up to 90% for the members who ride.