Green riders.The web-based GreenRide Campus Edition Ride-Sharing Management Program can help users find ride-share partners who live near them and who have similar class schedules, destinations, and preferences. The University of Florida University of Florida is the third-largest university in the United States, with 50,912 students (as of Fall 2006) and has the eighth-largest budget (nearly $1.9 billion per year). UF is home to 16 colleges and more than 150 research centers and institutes. signed on to reduce employee commuting traffic to, from, and on campus. Every GreenRide site has a savings calculator calculator or calculating machine, device for performing numerical computations; it may be mechanical, electromechanical, or electronic. The electronic computer is also a calculator but performs other functions as well. to help users determine how much they are saving (in gas, tolls, and parking fees) and see how much pollution they would eliminate. The base price for GreenRide, provided by Ecology ecology, study of the relationships of organisms to their physical environment and to one another. The study of an individual organism or a single species is termed autecology; the study of groups of organisms is called synecology. and Environment, is $4,900 per campus the first year, including hosting, licenses, upgrades, and technical support. After that, a "loyalty discount" kicks in; the price is reduced to $4,700 for the second year, $4,500 for the third. Visit www.greenride.com. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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