CatawbaGO: Free Electric Campus Rides at Catawba College
Catawba College, Salisbury, North Carolina
Overview
CatawbaGO is the on-demand electric ride service that Slidr deploys and operates for Catawba College in Salisbury, North Carolina. Students request a ride through the app and travel anywhere across campus and to nearby destinations in a clean, zero-emission vehicle, at no cost to them. Slidr handles the vehicles, the drivers, the dispatch technology, and the day-to-day operations, so the college runs a full campus mobility program without managing a fleet or hiring transportation staff.
In its first full year of service, CatawbaGO delivered 10,647 rides and carried 14,785 riders, earning a 4.94 out of 5 average driver rating and renewing automatically into a second year.
How it works for students
Open the Slidr app, request a ride, and a driver arrives in minutes. Rides are free for students, faculty, and staff. The service covers the Catawba College campus and connects to key off-campus destinations in Salisbury, giving students a safe, reliable way to get around late at night and throughout the day without needing a car.
For colleges evaluating a program
CatawbaGO shows what a turnkey campus mobility program looks like in practice. Catawba did not buy vehicles, hire drivers, or stand up dispatch software. Slidr brought the entire operation, launched it, and ran it, while the college kept full visibility through real-time reporting. For a college weighing whether to replace an aging shuttle loop or add a safe ride option, CatawbaGO is a working model that scales to campus size and budget.