Carsharing

Project Description

Innovative Mobility Research (IMR) tracks and analyzes international carsharing and station car trends.  These trends include factors that contribute to the success of shared-use vehicle organizations, societal and environmental impacts, and key issues critical to this emerging industry, such as insurance, low-emission vehicles, and electronic and wireless technologies.  The California Department of Transportation and DaimlerChrysler have sponsored much of this research.

By keeping a pulse on the international shared-use vehicle community, IMR seeks to provide valuable information to service providers, policymakers and other stakeholders (i.e., transit providers, community groups, automobile manufactures, electronic and cellular industries, and insurance companies).  Studies recently completed and available in PDF include:

Shared-Use Vehicle Services: A Survey of North American Market Developments. (PDF format 267kb)

U.S. Shared-Use Vehicle Survey Findings: Opportunities and Obstacles for Carsharing & Station Car Growth. (PDF format 267kb)

Policy Considerations for Carsharing & Station Cars: Monitoring Growth, Trends, and Overall Impacts. (PDF format 267kb)

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United States Carsharing Operations

Austin CarShare: Austin, TX

http://www.austincarshare.org/

Car to Go: Aspen, CO

http://www.cartogo.com/index. html

CarShare Vermont: Burlington, VT

http://www.carsharevt.org/home

CityCarshare: San Francisco Bay Area, CA

http://www.citycarshare.org/

CityWheels: Cleveland, OH

http://www.CityWheelsCleveland.com/

Community Car: Madison: WI

http://www.communitycar.com/

Community Car Share of Bellingham: Bellingham, WA

http://www.communitycarshare.org/

Connect by Hertz: NYC and Park Ridge, NY; Ohio State University, OH; Pepperdine University, CA; London, UK; Paris, FR

http://www.connectbyhertz.com/

CuseCar: Syracuse, NY

http://www.cusecar.com/index. htm

Dancing Rabbit Vehicle Cooperative: Rutledge, MO

http://www.dancingrabbit.org/drvc/

e-GO CarShare: Boulder, CO

http://carshare.org/

Eugene BioCarShare: Eugene, OR

http://www.biocarshare.org/

FunRide: San Luis Obispo, CA

http://myfunride.com/

HourCar: Minneapolis, MN

http://www.hourcar.org/

I-Go Car Sharing: Chicago, IL

http://www.igocars.org/about

Ithaca Carshare: Ithaca, NY

http://www.ithacacarshare.org/ index.html

Mint: Cars On-demand: NYC, NY

http://www.drivemint.com/

Missoula Urban Demonstration Project Truck Share Program: Missoula, MT

http://www.mudproject.org/index.htm

Occasional Car Club: Denver, CO

http://www.occasionalcar.com/

PhillyCarShare: Philadelphia, PA

http://www.phillycarshare.org/

Smart Commuter Options of Today (SCOOT): Kitsap, WA

http://www.kitsaptransit.org/Vanpool/scoot/index.htm

U Car Share: CA; MA; ME; OR; PA; UT; VA

http://www.ucarshare.com/

University of California, Riverside, IntelliShare: (Research) Riverside, CA

http://evwebsvr.cert.ucr.edu/intellishare/

WeCar

http://www.wecar.com/index. html

Zero Emission Vehicle Network Enabled Transport (ZEV-NET), University of California, Irvine: (Research) Irvine, CA

http://www.zevnet.org/

Zipcar: AZ; CA; CT; District of Columbia; FL; GA; IL; ME; MD; MA;MI; NH; NJ; NM; NY; NC; OR, PA; RI; TN; VT; VA; WA; WI

http://www.zipcar.com/

Canadian Carsharing Operations

Auto-partage Bois-Franc: Victoriaville, QB

http://autopartagebf.c.la/

AutoShare: Toronto, ON

http://www.autoshare.com/

Calgary Alternative Transportation Co-operative (CATCO): Calgary, AB

http://www.catco-op.org/

Car Sharing Cooperative of Edmonton: Edmonton, AB

www.carshareedmonton.ca

Carshare HFX: Halifax, Nova Scotia

http://carsharehfx.ca/index. html

Communauto: Quebec, Montreal, Sherbrooke, Gatineau

http://www.communauto.com/ index_ENG.html

Cooperative Auto Network: Vancouver, BC

http://www.cooperativeauto.net/

Grand River CarShare: Kitchener, ON

http://www.peoplescar.org/

Guelph Community Car Co-op: Guelph, ON

http://guelph.ca/living.cfm? smocid=2332

Kingston Carsharing (Green Earth Coop): Kingston, ON

Nelson CarShare Cooperative: Nelson, ON

http://www.nelsoncar.com/

Victoria Car Share Co-op: Victoria, BC

http://victoriacarshare.ca/

Vrtucar: Ottawa, ON

http://www.vrtucar.com/

Zipcar: Toronto, ON

http://www.zipcar.com/

European Carsharing Operations

BayreuthMobil: Germany

http://www.bayreuthmobil.de/index.htm

Cambio: Aachen, Bielefeld, Bremen, Bremerhaven, Koln, and Saarbruken, Germany

http://www.cambiocar.com/cambio/carsharing/en/1

Green Wheels: Germany

http://www.stattauto.de/

Mobility Carsharing: Switzerland

http://www.mobility.ch/pages/index.cfm?dom=6

National Carshare: Britain

http://www.nationalcarshare.co.uk/

Praxitele: France

http://www-rocq.inria.fr/praxitele/welcome-angl.html

Stadtmobil: Germany

http://www.teilauto.org/

Stattauto: Germany

http://www.stattauto-hl.de/

Teil Carsharing: Germany

http://www.teilauto.net/

Carsharing Inventories

Car Sharing Canada

http://www.carsharing.ca/

CarSharing Network

http://www.carsharing.net/

Car Plus: The Car Club Network

http://www.carplus.org.uk/

Carshare.com

http://www.carshare.com/

Carsharing.org

http://www.carsharing.org/

Easy Earth

http://www.eartheasy.com/live_car_sharing.htm

World Carshare

http://www.ecoplan.org/carshare/general/inventory-29dec2000.htm

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