Getting into a carpool
Various carpool schemes operate around the country. You can look for a carpooling partner in your area through a number of carpooling websites. Here are a few examples.
National sites
Regional sites
- Rodney Auckland
- Auckland Airport
- Tauranga
- University of Waikato
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Golden Bay
- Nelson
- Canterbury University Christchurch
- Wanaka
- University of Otago
- Caitlins, South Otago
Looking for more options?
Try searching the web using 'carpooling', 'ride sharing' and 'lift sharing' as key words.
Setting up a carpool
The main challenge in setting up a carpool is finding other carpoolers - finding people who live in the same area, who have a similar destination.
A sensible first step is to check whether there's already a scheme operating or being set up in your area. You can then team up with the existing scheme to increase your opportunity to find other carpoolers. Read more tips on setting up and running a carpool (PDF, 4.18 MB).
Carpooling resources
We've produced a range of resources to help you promote your carpooling scheme. Whether you're an employer, employee or local authority you can tailor these resources with your own logo and contact details.
You need to know
Some of these resources are large files and may take a while to download. The resources come either with or without trim lines. Choose whichever suits your printer.
- Carpooling guidelines
- Brochure for employers
- Brochure for employees
- Parking permit (for car pool cars using reserved car pool parks)
- Parking signage (for reserved car pool parks)
- Promotional resources
- Radio advertisements: These advertisements allow a few seconds at the end for you to record your own council's name, website or phone number.
- Stencil for parking space marking.
