CarLink economics - an empirically-based scenario analysis.

Author(s)
Shaheen, S. & Uyeki, R.
Year
Abstract

Most cars carry one person and are used for less than one hour per day. A more economically rational approach would be to use vehicles more intensively. Carsharing, in which individuals share a fleet of vehicles, is one such strategy. Smart carsharing employs advanced technologies to facilitate tracking, billing, and system management. CarLink, a smart carsharing system, was deployed in the San Francisco Bay Area for ten months in 1999 to test this concept. This paper describes the CarLink economic data, and through scenario analysis, identifies several market conditions in which carsharing could become more economically viable. The study found that CarLink could be sustainable when there is strong cooperation with local businesses, higher user fees are generated, and technology and management costs are lowered. For the covering abstract see ITRD E114174.

Request publication

4 + 4 =
Solve this simple math problem and enter the result. E.g. for 1+3, enter 4.

Publication

Library number
C 24535 (In: C 22454 CD-ROM) /10 /72 / ITRD E115688
Source

In: From vision to reality : proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Intelligent Transportation Systems ITS, Turin, Italy, 6-9 November 2000, 8 p., 7 ref.

Our collection

This publication is one of our other publications, and part of our extensive collection of road safety literature, that also includes the SWOV publications.