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Slugging

Slugging, also known as casual carpooling and flexible carpooling, is the practice of forming ad hoc, informal carpools for purposes of commuting, essentially a variation of hitchhiking. A driver picks up these non-paying passengers (known as "slugs" or "sluggers") at key locations, as having these additional passengers means that the driver can qualify…

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related to Further reading · 11
Slugging → August, Cohen, December, FHWA Casual Carpooling Scan, New Behavior, November, Randy, Report, The Ethicist, The Hill, The New York Times
related to background · 8
Slugging → American, Concern, HOV, In, Metropolitan Area, The, Washington, While
related to General practices · 8
Slugging → Drivers, Enough, In, Many, Pentagon, These, United States, Washington

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carpooling passengers drivers driver washington also slugs use area form people carpool sluggers major system one common meeting-place meeting place

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
the Washington metropolitan areainstance ofspecifically in major cities0.80text
San Franciscoinstance ofspecifically in major cities0.80text
Houston.The essence of the systems is the use of a meeting-place to form carpoolsinstance ofspecifically in major cities0.80text
without any advance contact between the participantsinstance ofspecifically in major cities0.80text
electronic identification cardsinstance ofand that security measures0.80text
parkinstance ofsluggers gather at local businesses and at government-run locations0.80text
ride-like facilities or bus stopsinstance ofsluggers gather at local businesses and at government-run locations0.80text
subway stations with lines of sluggersinstance ofsluggers gather at local businesses and at government-run locations0.80text
Sluggingrelated to backgroundIn0.60section
Sluggingrelated to backgroundAmerican0.60section
Sluggingrelated to backgroundWashington0.60section
Sluggingrelated to backgroundMetropolitan Area0.60section

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    Slugging

    Nodes42
    Edges41
    Triples35
    Avg. degree1.95
    Density0.047619
    Components1
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