Thursday, November 24, 2011

Vanpooling service coming to region - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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The two-year pilot is expected to begi bythe fall. The program is a partnershil of the Capital DistrictTransportatiohn Authority, the Capital District Transportation Committee, the Downtown Albany Business Improvement District, the state Department of Transportatio n and the . is currently recruiting businesses that mightg have employees coming from the same region who woulf be interested in participating inthe program. “The main thingf is you have to have at least a minimumn number of people to usethe van,” Janack said.
The way the program would work is one of the participants would also act as the The van would be assigned toa participant/driver, stay at that person’se place of employment duringg the day and remain at the driver’s home in the The company providing the wheels is Inc. out of N.J. VPSI had $62 milliob in revenue in 2008. VPSI was formecd in 1977 and startedfor employees. Today, the company has 5,000 vans in operation in more than 45 stateand 50,000 passengers. VPSI reported “At this point, as soon as possiblee we hope to beginh rollingvans out,” said Jesse Kafka, VPSI’s businesws development executive.
The company expectxs to have 20 vans in operation withintwo “We expect to add one van or so each month throughy the life of the program,” he For more information, call Mila Vega a CDTA planner at

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