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Play the Green Challenge Bingo Game and Earn Rewards for Sustainable Travel
Now you can earn rewards by playing Bingo with a transportation twist! New users have seven days to use the app to complete the Explorer Challenge Bingo card before it disappears. Once this game has been completed or expired the new, Green Challenge Bingo game will appear! Current users will see the Green Challenge Bingo game as soon as it comes out. Each activity you complete from the Bingo card (such as taking a walking, cycling, or transit trip) gets you one step closer
Dec 11, 2025


Introducing our Latest Update: Earning Badges with ConnectSmart!
Just added! Now you can earn Badges by using ConnectSmart to improve your daily travel around town! Badges acknowledge and celebrate your accomplishments and milestones using ConnectSmart. For example, you can earn the Eco Hero Badge by taking sustainable actions in the app, such as cycling or riding the bus to your destination to reduce your carbon emissions. The best part about your earned Badges is that they accumulate over time, remain in your account, and can be shared
Dec 11, 2025


Earn up to $15 Back by Taking Uber Rides Using ConnectSmart This Week!
We are excited to announce that you can now request and pay for an Uber ride right in the ConnectSmart app! From September 12-19, 2024, you can earn $5 in Coins for each Uber ride you take anywhere in the Greater Houston area using the ConnectSmart app (up to $15 total). We know parking at stadiums is a hassle, so request an Uber ride with your friends or family and travel to the game of your choice worry-free. Whether your team is college/professional level football or base
Dec 11, 2025


ConnectSmart Participates in Rice University’s Earth Month Kick-Off Festival
ConnectSmart began Earth Month awareness by partnering with Rice University’s Earth Month Kick-Off Festival to promote the launch of the Rice carpool groups, which both students and staff on campus can join. ConnectSmart joined other booths from sustainable agencies on April 1st in their Grand Hall to engage with Rice Owls and show the many ways the ConnectSmart transportation app can help them commute to and from campus. Rice’s Campus Services and Sustainability is looking
Dec 11, 2025


Go Green This Earth Month with ConnectSmart and Win a Stanley Cup!
Are you looking for a way to practice sustainable actions this Earth Month but don’t know what to do? Participate in ConnectSmart’s Go Green Challenge by using sustainable modes of transportation to reduce your carbon footprint. You’ll then be entered into our random drawings. Each week from April 1, 2024 through April 30, 2024, take five sustainable trips using the ConnectSmart app and you’ll be entered to win one of twelve Stanley cups! Keep an eye out, as we’ll also have
Dec 11, 2025


ConnectSmart: Bringing Active Transportation Demand Management (ATDM) Vision to Deployment
ATDM Overview (Source: FHWA) Efficiently managing congestion is a multifaceted challenge that demands innovative solutions to optimize existing infrastructure while providing travelers with seamless mobility choices and information on their travel. Enter ConnectSmart, a groundbreaking program spearheaded by the Texas Department of Transportation Houston District (TxDOT HOU) and funded through the USDOT Advanced Transportation and Congestion Management Technologies Deployment
Dec 11, 2025
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