Monday, February 11, 2008
Richmond International Airport (RIC)
Leave a comment for this posting if you want to share a ride from RIC to Charlottesville. Indicate the date and time you expect to arrive at the airport.
Washington Reagan National Airport (DCA)
Leave a comment for this posting if you want to share a ride from DCA to Charlottesville. Indicate the date and time you expect to arrive at the airport.
Friday, February 8, 2008
Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport (CHO)
It's a relatively small and friendly airport. Check in advance if your hotel provides an airport shuttle (may not be available in late evening). If you arrive during the day, you can usually find someone else standing around who wants to share a taxi. On the other hand, as the evening progresses, there are fewer taxis waiting and sometimes no other riders. So you might want to arrange to share a taxi by leaving a comment to this posting.
DC-Dulles International Airport (IAD)
Leave a comment for this posting if you want to share a ride from IAD to Charlottesville. Indicate the date and time you expect to arrive at the airport.
How to Use This Blog
There will be 4 postings following this one, a separate posting for each of the 4 airports in the region. If you want to share a ride from one of these airports to your hotel (or from your hotel to the airport when you depart), leave a comment for the relevant airport posting with your expected arrival and/or departure time. If a second comment appears with approximately the same time, either of you can contact the other directly* and discuss the best time to schedule the taxi to pick you up. One of you will have to contact the taxi or van company (again, see Travel link on SPIN2008 home page). If you want a 3rd or more person(s) to share the ride, leave information in a comment.
*If you want to be contacted for a ride-sharing proposal, you will have to leave your email address with the comment. To avoid certain types of scamming, you can choose in the comment to separate your domain from your ID, e.g., ID=john.doe, Domain=stanford.edu .
*If you want to be contacted for a ride-sharing proposal, you will have to leave your email address with the comment. To avoid certain types of scamming, you can choose in the comment to separate your domain from your ID, e.g., ID=john.doe, Domain=stanford.edu .
Introduction
This is a special blog for SPIN08 dedicated to an experiment in self-organizing shared transportation between regional airports (DC-Dulles International Airport (IAD), Washington Reagan Airport (DCA) and Richmond International Airport (RIC)) and Charlottesville. For information on travel options (taxis, vans, buses, trains, etc.), click on the "Travel" link in the left side bar of the SPIN2008 home page.
The advantage of a taxi over any scheduled transport (shuttle, bus, train) is that you specify the schedule (i.e., the pick up time), and you are delivered to or picked up from your hotel directly. However, it is a relatively expensive option. You can significantly reduce the price of a taxi by ride sharing. Depending on the amount of luggage you have, 2-3 persons should be able to share a regular taxi. A van will hold more.
The advantage of a taxi over any scheduled transport (shuttle, bus, train) is that you specify the schedule (i.e., the pick up time), and you are delivered to or picked up from your hotel directly. However, it is a relatively expensive option. You can significantly reduce the price of a taxi by ride sharing. Depending on the amount of luggage you have, 2-3 persons should be able to share a regular taxi. A van will hold more.
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