Houston ConnectSmart, a program deployed by the Texas Division of Transportation (TxDOT), is now accessible to the Rice neighborhood to assist transportation sustainability efforts. The app is accessible for obtain and can hyperlink Owls to create eco-friendly journey choices to get to and from campus and across the metropolis. It’s accessible to anybody with a rice.edu e-mail handle.
“ConnectSmart is an app that permits Rice customers and individuals who join with their Rice e-mail handle to arrange carpooling teams in addition to work out various technique of transportation to and from wherever they’re going,” stated Kristianna Bowles, sustainability program coordinator within the Workplace of Sustainability. “That features entry to the METRORail, bus stops and biking routes. It’s going to be a great software for us to advertise various and sustainable transportation options in addition to enhance fairness, particularly round our hourly workers who are available in earlier within the morning or who might not have entry to a car.”
Rice’s partnership with ConnectSmart launched April 1 as a part of the Earth Month Kick-Off Competition, and it serves one other vital purpose for the college: lowering the quantity of carbon dioxide emitted into the ambiance.
As a profit, Rice permits college students entry to free or backed Metro QCards. Nevertheless, for many who would not have a QCard, public transportation tickets could also be bought within the app when touring round Houston.
The ConnectSmart app provides college students an opportunity to maneuver past the hedges and discover the wealthy range of Houston’s choices.
“Rice’s college students are situated within the coronary heart of one of many largest cities within the nation, so this helps foster college students’ capacity to discover Houston’s tradition by means of meals, the humanities and public occasions,” Bowles stated.
For extra details about ConnectSmart, go to houstonconnectsmart.com.