Chicago Tribune - Carsharing Model Mimics Airplane Use

Car-sharing services in the US typically work on a neighborhood model: users sign up for blocks of time and are charged by the hour. The station-car model is different. It lets commuters take the train to a station near work where they pick up a car and drive straight to the company parking lot--where they leave the car for others to use. In a Chicago Tribune article, researcher Susan Shaheen of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center, provides some background on this model and why it didn't catch on.

Read the full article here.