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/

Boulder CarShare: Boulder, CO

http://carshare.org/

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/

Dancing Rabbit Vehicle Cooperative: Rutledge, MO

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

Eugene BioCarShare: Eugene, OR

http://www.biocarshare.org/

Flexcar: Seattle, WA; Portland, OR; San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego, CA; Chicago, IL; Pittsburg and Philadelphia, PA; Washington, D.C.; MD; VA; Atlanta, GA; Gainesville, FL.

http://www.flexcar.com/

HourCar: Minneapolis, MN

http://www.hourcar.org/

I-Go Car Sharing: Chicago, IL

http://www.igocars.org/about

Missoula Urban Demonstration Project Truck Share Program: Missoula, MT

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

PhillyCarShare: Philadelphia, PA

http://www.phillycarshare.org/

Roaring Fork Valley Vehicles: Aspen, CO

http://www.roaringforkvehicles.com/

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

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

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

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

University of California, Santa Barbara, CarShare Program: Santa Barbara, CA

http://tap.tps.ucsb.edu/carShare.aspx

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

http://www.zevnet.org/

Zipcar: Vancouver, WA; San Francisco, CA; Minneapolis, MN; Chicago, IL; Ann Arbor, MI; MA; NY/NJ; DC/VA/MD; Chapel Hill, NC; Toronto, ON

http://www.zipcar.com/

Canadian Carsharing Operations

Auto-partage Bois-Franc: Victoriaville, QB

AutoShare: Toronto, ON

http://www.autoshare.com/

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

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

Car Sharing Canada

http://www.carsharing.ca/

Car Sharing Cooperative of Edmonton: Edmonton, AB

http://www.web.net/%7Ecce/how.html

Communauto: Quebec, Montreal, Sherbrooke

http://www.communauto.com/anglais/welcome.html

Cooperative Auto Network: Vancouver, BC

http://www.cooperativeauto.net/

Guelph Community Car Co-op: Guelph, ON

http://www.girc.org/subPageDisplay.php?id2=8

Kingston Carsharing (Green Earth Coop): Kingston, ON

Nelson CarShare Cooperative: Nelson, ON

http://www.nelsoncar.com/

People’s Car Co-op: Kitchener, ON

http://www.peoplescar.org/

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

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