NEW YORK - Prom is as much about the journey as it is the dance, so how will all those teens heading into the annual rite of spring handle their wheels?

Limos and charter party buses may still be kings for prom, at least in some areas, but they don't have a stranglehold on transport considering the rise of Uber and similar hail services. Other high schoolers looking to save money plan to ditch rentals and drive themselves.Prom has morphed into multiple activities at multiple locations, complicating logistics in getting around, a particularly thorny issue for teens who will drink and drug. According to research, more than 90 percent of teens believe their fellow classmates will likely drink and drive on prom night and only 29 percent believe that driving on prom night comes with a high degree of danger.Nearly 1 out of 10 teens in one survey reported being a passenger of someone under the influence on prom night.Jillian Frisch, an 18-year-old in Voorhees, New Jersey, has no intention of being one of them when she and her friends drive themselves - two or three to a car - to their May 13 prom, along with a trip to the shore for an overnight after-party in a rented house."Drinking and driving is stupid. Most kids wait until they safely get to the shore house or wherever they go after prom to celebrate," she said.Jillian's dad, Gary Frisch, is fine with the transportation arrangements but fully acknowledged that some kids will drink once they get to the "prom house" despite a legal drinking age of 21."I'm actually trusting that there will be no illicit alcohol during the prom itself, and do trust that my daughter won't get in a vehicle with an impaired driver," he said.Some towns have gotten around that risk entirely by taking the issue of transportation into their own hands.In Glen Rock, New Jersey, along with many others, teens must take chaperoned charter buses to and from prom. The cost is often built into the price of prom tickets."They can drive themselves to school and then the bus takes them to the prom location," said mom Angela Crawford, whose 18-year-old son will attend senior prom in Glen Rock on June 3. "All school activities the day of the prom end in time so that the children have enough time to go home and change and meet the bus."Sam Levy, owner of US Bargain Limo, which operates rental fleets in parts of New Jersey, along with New York City and Philadelphia, said prom business is still going strong."It's one of our busiest times of the year," he said, estimating prom transport amounts to 30 to 35 percent of his rentals.