Systems and methods for arranging transportation for people and/or cargo

A transportation service method for transporting a person or cargo by authenticating a service provider's ability to provide the transportation service at a predetermined price, the transportation service method comprising:

• at least one user computing device generating a transportation service request, the transportation service request communicated to a transportation arrangement system computing device;
• the transportation arrangement system computing device selecting a service provider to perform the service request;
• the at least one transportation arrangement system computing device authenticating the service provider data;
• the transportation arrangement system computing device generating an agreement with the service provider to govern performance of the service request;
• at least one service provider computing device generating service provider data for the selected service provider,
• the at least one service provider computing device accepting the transportation service request as per the direction of a service provider;
• the at least one service provider computing device executing the agreement as per the direction of the service provider;

A transportation arrangement system for transporting a person or cargo, comprising:

• a processor;
• a memory;
• an application stored in the memory that when executed on the processor:
• receives transportation service requests and service provider data for candidate service providers to service the requests;
• authenticates the service provider data;
• executes at least one filtering scheme to create a sub-set of service providers capable of providing each of the transportation service requests;
• determines prices to be charged for the transportation service requests;
• and
• receives acceptance of the transportation service requests from at least one of the sub-set of service providers.