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Published on: 9/6/1999
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This tool enables people at their point of relative frustration-while they are sitting in traffic one day-to go home and jump online and find someone they can e-mail to start car pooling , said Donna Ambrose , GRTMA's executive director.
Using the free RideQuest.com system ( www.ridequest.com ) , commuters can register and log on with a password , enter their work schedules , home location and business location and within minutes receive a list of travelers with matching criteria.
Users also can update or delete their records at any time , sign up for a van pool group that transports eight to 15 people at once in vehicles supplied by King County , or look at Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc. maps detailing the general area where matching commuters live.
Ridequest.com was co-developed by Puget Sound Systems Group Inc. , a software development company based in Lacey , Wash. The system incorporates Hypertext Markup Language , JavaScript and a Microsoft Corp..SQL database , and it runs on a Compaq Computer Corp. dual-processor machine.
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We expect several thousand users by year's end , Ambrose said.
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