CarPooling or Rideshare is a method to reduce the use of cars in a specific town or area. Reducing car usage helps in turn to decrease pollution and prevent some other related problems. This usually takes place by having a car owner who uses his/her car to move from a place to another, and another person who is interested to go somewhere along the car owner’s way to destination, and at the same time the ride seeker is willing to share the ride cost with the car owner.

Based on the use of location and available car seats, ANDIAMO allows a substantial number of people to share car rides, using their cellular phones. This system would, among other advantages, rationalize energy consumption, save money, and decrease traffic jams and human stress, and eventually make a significant improvement in human life.

Lightweight devices such as PDA and Cellular phones are ubiquitous and their uses has recently extended traditional communications to the so-called Mobile Virtual Communities which facilitate the collaboration and the information exchange among mobile users that are physically located in one environment or remotely connected. Therefore, the ease-of-use is only realized in using mobile based applications, which the research group of ANDIAMO has been always focusing on and finally implemented. Meanwhile, our system is accessible via lightweight devices (mobile phones and PDAs), where Bluetooth technology is adopted to reflect users’ locality.