Find your car share buddy with Team Heathrow car share
Thousands of individual car journeys are made every day to and from the airport by Heathrow colleagues, many of which could be shared. Why not try sharing? Sign-up, add your journey, and find a car share match! Save money, cut carbon and congestion, and get access to priority car share parking at Heathrow-managed car parks.
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What are the benefits of car share to you?
Rewards for car sharing, priority parking and monthly prize draws!
Listing your journey is the best way to find a match.
Add your journey start and destination details. This could be a postcode, street name or primary work destination (e.g., N4 car park).
You can also add whether you’re a driver or passenger, or both, as well as your journey frequency.
You can add more than one journey, helping you find the right match suitable to your work pattern.
Your journey details will be listed to the Heathrow Car Share Community, so that colleagues can see your journey and request to join. Don’t worry though, car share is only available to Team Heathrow colleagues with a valid Heathrow ID only.
New members and journeys are added to car share daily, so add yours now to maximise your chances of finding a match and reducing your travel costs!
How to add your journey
Whether you’re a car driver, just a passenger, or both, you can be part of a car share team. Simply add your journey details and find your match.
If you’ve found a potential match, click on their journey to ask to share. You’ll be prompted to leave a short message, and we suggest introducing yourself and your journey needs. Confirm your team and you’re set to go!
We recommend meeting in person before sharing a ride together – it’s good to break the ice!
How to find car share matches
Receiving and Responding to a Request to share
Once you’ve confirmed your team, you’ll have the option to download and print your car share permit via your Account on Mobilityways App. Make sure the full permit is displayed on your windscreen before parking at the car share spaces in Heathrow-managed colleague car parks.
Important: you must display a valid car share permit to park in any of the car share spaces.
You’re all set to go! Just one more thing to do.
When you’ve picked up your car share buddy, make sure to validate your journey. This confirms that your car share took place and makes you eligible to park in car share bays across colleague car parks and monthly car share rewards.
Simply open the Mobilityways App and click on “Authenticate”. The driver selects the ‘Driver’ option; this will generate a QR code which the passenger(s) can then scan.
How to validate ‘trip authenticate’ your car share
Car sharers save on average £1000 in fuel costs every year, as well as cut carbon and congestion.
Gain access to priority parking spaces in Heathrow colleague car parks.
Be sure to validate your car share on your way to work to be automatically entered into monthly prize draws, such as high street shopping vouchers and free coffee!
Find out moreCar share members who are sharing can now print their own permits - no waiting for it to turn up in the post. Simply go to 'My teams & permits' from 'more' menu on your profile page and select 'Parking permit'. The permit will load on a new page, which you can print and place on your windscreen.
Please ensure you are displaying the correct permit. Old permits are no longer accepted, please visit your profile page to download your valid car share permit.
Examples of correct and incorrect permits can be found here.
It takes just seconds to validate your journey using the Mobilityways App.
When you meet your car share buddy at the start of your journey, simply open the Mobilityways App and click on “Authenticate”. The driver selects the ‘Driver’ option that generates a QR code which the passenger(s) can then scan.
By doing this you’ll automatically enter yourselves into monthly prize draws and rewards.
It is important that all car sharers validate their journeys. This confirms that you have shared your ride and are eligible to park at the priority spaces at Heathrow-managed colleague car parks.
It’s important that our car sharing colleagues have access to priority car share spaces across all Heathrow-managed colleague car parks. That’s why regular checks of the bays take place, with warning notices or PCNs issued to cars that are not display the correct permit.
Please make sure you are displaying a valid car share permit and have validated your journey before parking at the priority spaces.
See the car share T&Cs at the colleague bus shelters at colleague car parks, or at the smoking shelter at Compass Centre.
Car sharing is when one or more occupants share a private car. We all share cars regularly, with our friends and family, without thinking about it. But there are often times when a driver has empty seats simply because they don't know anyone who needs a lift, or they might not be aware of the benefits of sharing.
Mobilityways enables organised car sharing by connecting people travelling in the same direction so they can travel together and share the costs, whilst reducing congestion and pollution at the same time.
No, you don't need a car, or to drive, to car share - many people are happy to offer lifts in exchange for sharing the fuel costs or simply to have company on the journey. On the Mobilityways network, you can register your journey 'as a passenger' if you don't have a car.
If you have a travel-related question, or would like some advice about the best way to get to work, email us at Commuter@Heathrow.com.
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