Mobile Ridesharing Service »OpenRide« Goes Open Source

31.05.2011

Ridesharing is becoming increasingly popular. Not only does it allow for cost-saving and environmentally friendly travelling but it also reduces city traffic. In order to promote this development, Fraunhofer FOKUS (Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS) releases the source code of its innovative mobile ridesharing service, OpenRide. OpenRide is thus the world's first software of a dynamic ridesharing service that has been released under an open source license. This step enables developers and users to apply the software free of charge, to develop it further and to customise it to suit individual ideas and business models.