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2007 November 30: WSDOT Funds Flexible Carpooling

AUCKLAND ~ 30 Novwember 2007 ~ Destination SeaTac: World First Flexible Carpooling Route?....

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2007 June 8: Urban Partnership Agreements

AUCKLAND ~ 8 June 2007 ~ US Federal Highways Administration announces short list cities for 'fight-congestion-now' funds....

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2007 May 22: Great HOVER Press in Canada

TORONTO ~ 22 May 2007 ~ Canada's National Post carries half page story on HOVER for Toronto....

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2007 May 15: California Casual Carpooling

OAKLAND ~ 15 May2007 ~ HOVER Updates a Casual Carpool Count...

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2007 January 25: HOVER Engages Local Tranpsortation Experts

ATLANTA ~ 25 January 2007 ~ At a transportation summit Trip Convergence Ltd tells Atlanta transportation experts about the HOVER System for flexible carpooling...

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2007 January 15: Public Meeting Discusses Flexible Carpooling

TORONTO ~ 15 January 2007 ~ A public meeting held this evening at the Toronto Reference Library heard about the HOVER Flexible Carpooling System.....

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2007 January 15: HOVER Feasibility Study One Step Closer

TORONTO ~ 15 January 2007 ~ A meeting today involving representatives from the Ministry of Transport for Ontario, the City of Toronto, GO Transit, the Toronto Transit Commission, the Town of Markham and Trip Convergence Ltd at the MTO offices in Downsview agreed to develop a specification for a feasibility study that will include consideration of the innovative HOVER System for flexible carpooling.

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2007 January 13: HOVER Technology Right on the Money

BOULDER CO ~ 13 January 2007 ~ Trip Convergence Ltd took delivery of the prototype of the HOVER Technology today in Boulder. The technology, developed by Active RFID Systems, Inc. of Boulder, and enhanced to TCL's HOVER specification, moves HOVER one step closer to implementation....

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2007 January 4: HOVERPORT.org Exhibits at Atlanta Summit

ATLANTA GA ~ 4 January 2007 ~ If more people shared rides or carpooled in the Atlanta region traffic would improve. Traditional carpooling works for many but it has limitations. HOVERPORT.org is exhibiting at a congestion summit in Atlanta to show off its new flexible carpooling system.

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2007 January 4: Carpooling Without the Effort

WASHINGTON, DC ~ 4 January 2007 ~ Everyone knows that carpooling is inconvenient and inflexible, and while it saves money and fuel it seems that people will put up with badly congested traffic rather than find a carpool partner. Now Trip Convergence has a new system that will take the inconvenience, inflexibility, and effort out of carpooling.

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2006 December 22: HOVER in Toronto

Paul Minett, co-developer of the HOVER system, will be in Toronto in January for meetings with local officials who are considering a feasibility study to evaluate implementing HOVER in the GTA. There will also be a public meeting.

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2006 December 21: Frequently Asked Questions

We've been keeping track of the questions people ask us when we tell them about the HOVER system. Here they are with detailed answers. If your question isn't answered here, please send it to us by clicking on 'Contact HOVER'.

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2006 November 15: Student finds 'free land' for HOVER Park

Massey University Industrial Design student Michael Lewis has built a model of a HOVER Park, but its where he'd put it that will surprise you. His design was unveiled at HOVER's Xmas party in Auckland.

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2006 November 6: Helping NZ business achieve sustainability

Two heavyweights in the New Zealand business community have celebrated one year as a joint force initiative to help push the country towards a more sustainable future.

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2006 September 15: Auckland: HOVER for Waiheke Island

Free car parking spaces at Matiatia are to be offered to commuters willing to share car rides in a proposed car-pooling trial at the end of this year.

ACC transport committee chairman councillor Richard Simpson has put forward the idea for Waiheke after being impressed by a new commercial car-pooling system designed by Auckland-based start-up Trip Convergence Ltd.

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2006 July 6: Council hovering back to the future with carpooling

CARPOOLING was not so long ago a quaint folk story half-remembered from the 1970s, but with the morning gridlock escalating at a pace of petrol prices, Manukau City is thinking retro.

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2006 June 26: Waitakere City Council supports Auckland HOVER Trial

Waitakere City Council has set aside $30,000 towards a trial of the innovative HOVER system in Auckland in the 2007/08 budget year.

The funding is conditional on the support of the Auckland Regional Transport Authority and the Auckland City Council.

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2006 March 12: Auckland: Pool Plan to Beat the Jams

A scheme to entice strangers to meet at a suburban carpark, hitch a ride in a full car and get special parking privileges in the city could be running in Auckland by 2008....

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