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Find Rides
Go to “Rides” to explore your carpool, transit, cycle, walk, and other travel options.
Record Trips
Go to “Trips” to record your trips in your account to track the money you save, the miles you didn't have to drive, and your reward points.
Get Rewards
Go to “Rewards” to redeem your points for cash gift card drawing entries or for a Guaranteed Ride Home when eligible.
FAQs
The free Alamo Commutes mobile app, and accompanying desktop website, serves three primary functions:
- Carpool Matching
- Identify Alamo Commutes users in your area who you may be able to carpool with.
- Trip Logging
- Log your trips taken by foot, bike, transit, carpool, and telecommuting.
- Rewards
- Earn rewards to redeem your points for cash gift card drawing entries or for a Guaranteed Ride Home when eligible.
The website and mobile app provide the same three primary functions - carpool matching, trip logging, and rewards. However, the app provides additional features such as third-party app integration.
- Go to Rides.
- Find your carpool match by going to “Rides” in the navigation bar. Enter your home address and work address. Matches will appear as green and red pins on the map, or select the icon on the top left to view matches in list format.
- Filter your matches.
- Narrow down your matches by selecting the icon on the top right. Carpool with colleagues only by selecting “Organization”. Or select matches based on recent activity, depart/return time, gender, language and more.
- If you have trouble finding a match, try expanding your search radius by selecting “+/- 2 miles”. Or filter your matches by selecting “On the Way”.
- Compare options by mode.
- Select “Compare” on the bottom right. Select “Options” on the bottom right to view the map with other elements, such as Park and Ride lots, bike and car share locations, and EV charging stations.
- Contact your matches.
- Email your match through the app. It will be synced to your preferred email account.
- Go to Trips.
- Select “Record a Trip”. Complete the checklist, such as transportation mode, route origin and destination,and commute or non-commute.
- Record trips automatically.
- If you have a regular commute, record your trips automatically to accrue points for rewards. When completing your trip recording checklist, select the “Record Weekly” option and select the number of commute days.
- Sync trips.
- Sync trips from other apps such as Lyft, Strava and Underarmour.
Yes. You can earn rewards for commute and non-commute related trips.
- View your points.
- View the number of points you have by selecting “Me” in the navigation bar. You automatically begin with 1,000 points.
- Go to “Rewards”.
- Select a cash gift card amount to enter the drawing.
- Redeem your reward.
- Select the reward you would like to redeem.
- Once you’ve selected your reward, the value for the reward will be listed at the bottom. Select “Redeem reward” and answer the questions.
- Your reward will be emailed to you within approximately 24 hours.
- For more information on how to redeem your Guaranteed Ride Home, visit our Commuter page.