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The CarSharing Association is pleased to welcome Dave Brook and Team Red US as an Affiliate.  After pioneering carsharing in the Pacific Northwest with his own company CarSharing Portland (1998); co-founder of Flexcar (2000),  Dave began consulting in 2005 and joined Team Red, a international consultancy based in Berlin and Portland, focused on mobility and

The CSA began a decade ago as an informal network of carsharing pioneers.  The early adopters created an environmentally friendly alternative to private car ownership and put carsharing on the map in North America.  Now with more than 45,000 shared cars worldwide serving more than 1.8 million members, the carsharing phenomenon has grown larger than

The CarSharing Association would like to make a distinction between the “transportation network companies” now regulated by the California Public Utilities Commission and classic, round-trip carsharing services that have been legally and safely operating in California for more than ten years.  In classic carsharing, member-drivers have access to a vehicle that is owned, insured and

TORONTO, Sept. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — The car sharing industry is expected to exceed $6 billion by 2020 with top markets including North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and South America. Around the globe, policymakers, urban planners and entrepreneurs are busy finding solutions to ease environmental and traffic issues by deploying creative uses of technology and establishing

Anyone interested or involved in the exciting and fast-evolving shared-use mobility service sector needs to attend the upcoming Shared Use Mobility Summit to be held October 10-11,in San Francisco. This will be the first-ever gathering of well-known and respected leaders from industry, government and academia involved in carsharing, bikesharing and ridesharing. The Summit is being held by the Transportation Sustainability Research Center of

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