Currently, San Diego State and Waze are offering $2 off rides until Dec. 31 for the holiday season.
This partnership was in place last year. “Waze and iComute reached out to us.” Debbie Richeson, Director of parking and transportation services said over email. “At the time, we only had Zimride for a car-sharing service and we felt other alternatives would be beneficial to our campus community.” To sign up, students can visit Waze Carpool and enter their SDSU email to trigger the promotion. Once signed up, students may choose who they carpool with through the Waze carpool app. It offers the ability to filter potential carpool matches or the opportunity to create your own group of carpoolers. Public relations senior Ripsime Avetisyan believes the promotion is a valuable. “My biggest concern around the holidays is driving because I’m afraid of drunk drivers,” Avetisyan said. “Kids around campus should be having fun but part of having fun is learning to do it responsibly and the carpool discount sounds like the way to do it.” SDSU plans to keep the Waze partnership and deemed it successful. “I would say that partnering with Waze has been successful.” Richeson said, “We have no plans to change our partnership and would still like to work with Waze.” SDSU Parking and transportation services do not have their September or October data, but they shared their August statistics. Marketing senior Elizabeth Popova doesn’t think discounted carpools will lessen traffic around campus. “I don’t think $2 is a big enough incentive. Popova said. “So I think traffic will stay more or less the same.”
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