Open University Journey Share

Register your personal details and journey sharing preferences top

In order to be able to look for potential journey sharers all you have to do is complete a few personal details and your travel preferences. From the Journey Share welcome page, click the Register tab. Follow the instructions and complete the boxes, most of which are compulsory, for both your personal details (name, postcode etc.) and your specific journey sharing preferences e.g. which days you wish to share (you don't have to share every day), what times you wish to arrive and depart on those days and a few other choices e.g. whether or not you wish to smoke.

In order for any changes to these preferences to be saved, make sure you click on "save" at the bottom of the page and then follow the instructions.

Login to the personalised section of the site top

On the welcome page, click the Log in tab. This will take you to your personalised Open University Journey Share home page. From here you can look for potential journey sharers, alter your personal and employment details and change your password.

Typically your username will be your work email address. If you forget or have lost your password, click the Log in tab, enter your username in the Forgotten your password? section and click "remind me".

We recommend that you change your password to something you will remember more easily than the initial one generated by the system for you.

Change your password top

To change your password, you must be logged in, then click "password" on your Journey Share home page. Follow the instructions and click "save". On the screen that this takes you to, click "continue" to go back to your home page or click the Logout tab and then go back to the welcome page to try logging in with your new password.

Alter your personal and employment details top

To review or alter your personal and employment details, click "details" on your Journey Share home page. Check all the details and change anything which is incorrect.

When any of your personal circumstances relevant to this site change, please login and update your details as soon as possible.

Once you have made any changes to the above details and options, click "save" for those changes to be saved. Click "continue" on the acknowledgement screen in order to go back to your Journey Share home page.

Update your journey sharing preferences top

From your Journey Share home page, click "preferences". Check all the details and change anything which is no longer appropriate. e.g. which days you wish to share (you don't have to share every day), what times you wish to arrive and depart on those days, whether or not you wish to smoke.

In order for these preferences to be saved, make sure you click "save" at the bottom of the page.

Click "continue" on the acknowledgement page to go back to your Journey Share home page.

Look for potential journey sharers top

To find some potential journey sharers, click "matches" (on your Journey Share home page - you need to be logged in). This takes you to the map page.

The initial matches are, by default, calculated within a radius of 5 miles of your home or departure postcode and within +/- 30 mins match on your preferred arrival and departure times. The green bubble is you, and any red bubbles which are showing are potential journey sharers.

If you wish to change these criteria, e.g. to look further afield on your journey into work or to give a less absolute match on your arrival times, then select different options from the two relevant drop down boxes and click "search".

To find out more details about the potential journey sharers produced by the system, either scroll down the page or click on any red "balloon" marker on the map. The general details about your suitable potential journey sharers are displayed in a table with a maximum of five to a page.

From your Journey Share home page you can: top

• look for potential journey sharers
• set up a new journey share group
• alter your personal and employment details
• change your travel preferences
• change your password
• resign from Journey Share.

Set up a new journey share group top

Once you have contacted some other members and have arranged to set up a new journey share group, one of you elects to go back to the system and record your sharing arrangement. Login to your Journey Share home page and click "groups".

Follow the instructions, type in the work email addresses of your members and save the additions by clicking "new group".

Resign from Journey Share top

If you wish to resign from Journey Share, click "resign" on your Journey Share home page. You will be sent a confirmation email.

Other links: top

• FAQs - takes you to a screen which should answer some of the questions asked by users on a regular basis. If you need any other details please contact the Journey Share Administrator. New answers to regular questions will be added on an ongong basis.
• Conditions - takes you to those always necessary terms and conditions.
• Taxi home - details of the taxi home scheme for car sharer in emergency or unforeseen situations
• Email us - opens a new email message (addressed to the Journey Share Administrator) with the "To" heading already completed.

Problems or queries top

If you have any queries please contact your Journey Share Administrator.