# title
Appendix b to the casual carpooling scan report

# abstract
2014 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. During November and December 2010, the Exploratory Advanced Research (EAR) Program supported a team that consisted oftransportation professionals, academic faculty, and business entrepreneurswho visited informal carpool lines (also called slug lines or casualcarpool lines) in Washington, DC; Houston, TX; and San Francisco, CA,to observe "slugs" and to compare practices among locations. The teamalso met with private ride-match providers, regional planners, carpoolparticipants, and transportation planners and engineers with the overallgoal of studying these ridesharing systems. This appendix provides thepersonal observations of the scan members at each of the three slug linelocations. The full report is published as FHWA-HRT12-053, CasualCarpooling Scan Report.

# authorList[]
Burris, M., Christopher, E., DeCorla-Souza, P., Greenberg, A., Heinrich, S., Morris, J., ... Winters, P.

# bookTitle
Casual Carpooling: An Analysis of its Mechanics and Merits