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Use the ConnectSmart App to Book an Uber Trip on New Year’s Eve or Day & Get $20 Back in Coins from ConnectSmart!
We want to help everyone feel safer on the road this New Year's holiday, so we’re making it easier to find and pay for a ride for a fun night out on the town! Just request a ridehail using ConnectSmart’s Trip Planner to anywhere in the Greater Houston area, from December 31, 2024 through January 1, 2025. You’ll automatically receive $20 in Coins in your ConnectSmart Wallet once you complete the ride. This means you can use the $20 to help pay for your ride back home! How do I
Dec 11, 2025


Claim Your $10 Uber Voucher from Houston ConnectSmart for a Safe 4th of July Weekend!
As Independence Day approaches, TxDOT Houston is once again encouraging residents to “Be Responsible. Ride, Don’t Drive” to and from your events this 4th of July and weekend. Once you have downloaded the Houston ConnectSmart app, all you need to do to claim your $10 Uber voucher is take at least one trip (either by driving, walking, biking, transit or carpooling) between July 3rd and 7th using the ConnectSmart app! Upon completion of your trip, you’ll get a link for your $10
Dec 11, 2025


Ride Responsibly with a $20 Uber Voucher from ConnectSmart!
TxDOT Houston is once again encouraging residents to “Be Responsible. Ride, Don’t Drive” to and from the big event. Before grabbing your boots and getting on the road, be sure to claim your $20 Uber Voucher in the ConnectSmart app! The voucher can be used towards an Uber ride to or from the NRG Park area between February 22nd and March 18th, compliments of ConnectSmart. * While supplies last. Uber Voucher Terms and Conditions apply. How to Obtain Your Uber Voucher: Make sure
Dec 11, 2025


ConnectSmart Celebrates a Memorable 2023
Although the ConnectSmart program has been live for just over a year, we have closed out 2023 well on our way to achieving our goals of making Houston more connected and less congested. By using the app’s travel-friendly features, our 21,000 (and growing!) users have not only improved their and others’ every day travel around town, but have also helped make the Greater Houston region a healthier place to live and a safer place to get around. Here’s a snapshot of ConnectSmart’
Dec 11, 2025


Join ConnectSmart to Save Lives and End Daily Road Fatalities
Today, the makers of Houston’s ConnectSmart app made a promise: For every trip a user takes in the ConnectSmart app from now through the end of November 2022, we’ll donate $1 to the Kailee Mills Foundation (up to 10 trips/user and $5,000). What does this have to do with saving lives? In October of 2017, a 16-year-old passenger in a car died when the car she was riding in veered off the road. For a brief moment, Kailee didn’t have her seat belt on. But that moment was all it
Dec 11, 2025
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