Travel A to B with Jayride

How Jayride works

Make money towards costs every time you drive. Find unique cheap and green travel that is more social and more fun! Drivers or passengers, commuters or travelers, check Jayride to travel by carpool, bus, relocation and more!

For drivers

You'll save money, slash your carbon footprint, benefit your community, meet people, travel easier, drive in the carpool lane and have more fun on the road!

It's free to sign up, you can charge what you like and you get to keep it all.

 

 

For passengers

You'll find better ways to travel. Not just carpools either – buses, shuttles, relocation cars and more – unique, cheap and fun travel experiences that you can't get elsewhere!

It's free to sign up, you'll save money, have less impact and way more fun.

 

 

For organisations

Build travel plans for your workplace or University, support your local community, or reduce congestion and emissions at your event.

Jayride has opportunities for workplaces, Universities, community groups, festivals, events and more. Contact us and let's work together.

 

 

For transport companies

List your services online, be found where people search, build your business profile and reach thousands of new customers.

Whether you're an owner-operator or one of the country's biggest networks, you can list your services on Jayride to get noticed and make extra sales.

Nifty features...

Things to do...

Private

Publish your ride but scramble the address and
hide your contact details - that's serious privacy.

Share your ride

Save money, slash your carbon footprint,
meet people and have more fun on the road!

Social

Build your profile, send messages, meet other
travelers safely online then hit the road together.

Sell your transport

Professional operators can list anything from
buses to trains, taxis to relocation cars. No limits!

Local

There's a page just for transport in your town,
so you can find rides to and from your place.

Make a sustainable event

Avoid CO2-e emissions, reduce your congestion
and parking needs, and get great green branding!

Global

Your Jayride membership will work on any Jayride
site, wherever you are around the world.

Help your community

Tired of traffic in your town? Tired of pollution?
Jayride can help your community beat the car.

Personal

Save to your personal watchlist and we'll notify
you about only the rides that matter to you.

Plan for your workplace

Get sustainability and employee benefits all rolled
into one. Help your staff save on their commute.

Trusted

See who to trust with user profiles and badges.
Review your passengers before meeting.

Use our data

All rides on Jayride are available by RSS and
ATOM so you can syndicate them to your website.



As Featured In

TVNZ

The New Old

Non-driving presenter Wallace Chapman looks into the fast-growing big-city trend away from cars as citizens take to bikes, buses, trains and even footwear power.

8 June 2012 – TVNZ

Courier Mail

Sharing in the rental revolution

With social media having dulled our face-to-face contact and hitchhiking all but dead, ride sharing fills that gap of altruism, communing with real people and peeking briefly into the lives of others.

20 May 2012 – The Courier-Mail

Channel 9

Rideshare scheme set to be a big hit

The Dunedin City Council, in conjunction with the University of Otago and Otago Polytechnic, have come up with an alternative rideshare scheme.

15 March 2012 – Channel 9

Australian ride-sharing marketplace Jayride.com grabs $400K in angel funding

Australian-based travel marketplace Jayride.com has lined up $400,000 AUD in seed funding for its ride-sharing service, which also aggregates transportation data.

21 February 2012 – TechCrunch

Anthill Magazine

Anthill Magazine's "Social Capitalist" Cool Company award winner

The winner of the Social Capitalist Award will have demonstrated the ability to address a targeted social need in an innovative and entrepreneurial way... while building a successful business.

24 November 2011 – Anthill Magazine

ANZ Flying Start competition finalist

Finalist in the ANZ Flying Start Business Plan competition 2011.

22 July 2011 – ANZ

The green ride to Splendour In The Grass

"There's a positive way to look at [travel pollution], and that's to say 'if we get 1,000 people being passengers over this distance, we've avoided 500 tonnes of pollution."

22 July 2011 – Green Times

Anthill Magazine

Thumbs up for hitch-a-ride website

"The spots have gone already - to a guy from Brisbane and girl from Melbourne ... We will split petrol costs and I will drive" - Sarah Kristensen, 23, of Greenslopes.

29 June 2011 – The Courier-Mail

Anthill Magazine

Anthill Magazine's SMART 100 winner

Jayride has been named one of Australia's 100 most innovative products or services, in one of the largest innovation awards in Australia – the Anthill Magazine 'SMART 100' Index.

31 May 2011 – Anthill Magazine

The compendium for the civic economy

What are the smart sustainable transport infrastructures that help us move away from "building more" and "buying more"? A showcase of 25 trailblazing ideas that are transforming local places and economies.

12 May 2011 – NESTA, CABE, 00:/, Foreword by David Cameron PM

Good Magazine

Common sense will keep you safe

07 February 2010 – The New Zealand Herald

TVNZ

Tamati's Transport Tiki Tours

14 May 2009 – TVNZ Breakfast

Carbon News

Jayride moves into Queenstown

22 January 2009 – CarbonNews

TV3

Hitch-hiking, carpooling and hopping, alternative work transport

07 August 2008 – TV3, Campbell Live

Newstalk ZB

Carpooling on the rise

25 June 2008 – Newstalk ZB, Morning News