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After a long period of incubation from committed community groups, the Okanagan Car Share Co-op has commenced operations with two vehicles in Kelowna, Canada.  Located in a beautiful valley known for fruit growing and wineries, rapid population growth has not been matched with developments in public transit.  As a result, the City of Kelowna has […]

Mexico City and the surrounding area is home to more than twenty-one million people.  Public transportation is well developed with more than 195 Metro train stations in a network that moves 4.5 million people every day.  In 2012, Diego Solòrzano started up Carrot carshare to complement the existing public transit system.  In less than 18 months,

California regulators proposed new rules to regulate ride sharing services on July 30th.  The proposed rules could become effective as soon as September 5.  Read the full text of the rules at the link below. California Public Utilities Commission: Decision adopting Rules and Regulations To Protect Public Safety While Allowing New Entrants To The Transportation

Buffalo CarShare, a not-for-profit with 14 cars in upstate New York, has made creating positive social impacts a central part of the business plan. BCS has deliberately stayed away from markets that profit-oriented operators consider attractive (e.g. university campuses and young affluent neighborhoods) and carved out a niche providing  services to lower income residents of

The CarSharing Association is pleased to welcome CarPingo as a member.  CarPingo provides transit-oriented carsharing services to residents of Brooklyn and parts of Queens.  When we read CarPingo’s blog post entitled How Our NYC Car Share is Supporting a Cleaner Environment, we knew we had a carsharing organization that understood the environmental mission laid out

Communauto inaugurated on Le Plateau-Mont-Royal borough, the first 100% electric one-way carsharing service in Canada. As of today, some twenty vehicles will be available to citizens for trips from a point A to a point B, by simply passing an OPUS card previously registered in the Auto-mobile system. The aim of the pilot project is to evaluate

Five years ago, in June 2008, Ithaca Carshare was formed as a result of community members coming together to create a vision.  Ithaca Carshare, a transit-oriented service, offers self-serve access to vehicles when needed, without the ongoing high cost of ownership. This model makes independent transportation affordable to more people, supports everyday bus riding, bicycling

I-GO Carsharing — a Chicago-based, transit-oriented, local, not-for-profit carsharing organization — was recently purchased by Enterprise Holdings.  As the trend towards industry consolidation continues, the CSA continues to support the development of non-profit carsharing as a vital component of the carsharing industry. The CSA membership includes both for-profit and not-for-profit carsharing organizations that support a community-focused,

The CarSharing Association (CSA) comments on Minneapolis public on-street parking policies The City of Minneapolis recently amended its carsharing pilot project to allow multiple carsharing operators to access public on-street parking spaces, instead of awarding exclusive parking privileges to a single operator. The CarSharing Association (CSA) supports municipalities and public transit authorities that want to integrate

Montréal has been elected host city of the 62nd UITP World Congress and Mobility and City Transport Exhibition, to be held in 2017, the year of Montréal’s 375th anniversary. The decision can be attributed to the combined efforts of the Agence métropolitaine de transport (AMT) and the Société de transport de Montréal (STM), with the