Volo “A peer to peer parking system solving urban congestion”

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Original Sept 15 – Updated Sept 25, 2014

Location: Palo Alto, CA, USA

 

Conceived in September of 2013, Founding CEO and social entrepreneur Max Marty, co-founding engineers Tilman Thederan & James Lee, along with co-founder & growth-hacker Elizabeth Hunker, have launched Volo.

 

Volo is an app designed to solve the problem of finding parking via peer-to-peer networks and dynamic pricing technology. Volo empowers individuals to efficiently manage urban parking by changing the price of parking in response to demand without the need for a complicated hardware based solution.

 

Volo has just launched its beta release in Palo Alto, CA – working with the local community to help them shape the platform to solve congestion and, with it, effectively reduce emissions there – with a stated 30% impact goal. The idea for launch period is to absorb as much feedback as possible for fast iteration towards more user-friendly advances in design, engineering and community service.

 

Volo was conceived to put an end to the waste of time and resources from driving and trying to park in congested environments. In step with the globally emerging sharing economies, mesh networks, and peer to peer marketplaces, the founding team, through a period of trial and error have pinpointed this bottom-up system, coupled with the latest technological abilities and interfaces as the best way forward, to innovate our way through these lingering urban problems.

 

This decentralized, citizen-run platform enables individuals to create local solutions and lets communities implement all of their public policy goals, evolving navigation to a simpler, smarter, collaborative process – and of course, making the search for parking a streamlined and painless part of life, anywhere and anytime.

Volo is looking to connect with other cities around the country that are interested in a zero-cost way to reduce circling and congestion on their city streets.

 

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MEDIA CONTACT INFO:

http://volo.io/
https://www.facebook.com/VOLOapp
[email protected]
650.265.0634

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