The CSA Blog
The Carsharing Association blog is your go-to resource for launching, operating, and scaling carsharing services. Whether you’re a startup founder, mobility planner, or city official, our articles offer practical guidance, industry insights, and real-world case studies to help you navigate the shared mobility landscape.
MOQO | One Fleet, Every Business Model
Every carsharing operator is chasing something different, fewer cars, better margins, well-served members. CSA partner MOQO shares what hundreds of operators across 19 countries have in common: they shape their own operation, raise utilization,...
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August’s Carshare Operator Members Chat
This month's Carshare Operator Chat brought together members from across North America for a walkthrough of one operator's new data system, a first look at the conference program, and updates on software and program...
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July’s Carshare Operator Members Chat
The latest Carshare Operator Chat brought together members from across North America for a wide-ranging conversation covering technology, fleet decisions, community engagement, and conference planning. Below is a recap for members who couldn't attend...
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The latest Carshare Operator Chat brought together members from across North America for a wide-ranging conversation covering technology, fleet decisions, community engagement, and conference planning. Below is a recap for members who couldn't attend...
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Webinar: Our Common Purpose: Carsharing and Parking Reform
CSA Executive Director Pam Cooley joined Daniel Herriges from the Parking Reform Network and Charles Shephard, Executive Director of Business and Mobility Strategies at the Agence de mobilité durable de Montréal, for a conversation...
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Webinar: Cars on Demand 2.0: Data, Digitalization, and the Principles That Make Carsharing Work
Earlier this month, the CSA joined Necture and ATOM Mobility for a live webinar exploring how the shared mobility landscape is evolving — and what it takes to build carsharing operations that actually last....
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March’s Carshare Operator Members Chat
From insurance renewal concerns to community outreach, referral strategies, in-vehicle cameras, and conference planning, the conversation highlighted just how valuable peer exchange can be, especially for small and mid-sized operators navigating similar operational realities. Below...
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Webinar: Reducing Risk and Increasing Growth through Technology
In this CSA marketplace webinar, four member companies —Bosch & Zubie, carvaloo, Necture, and INVERS —showcased practical, data-driven tools that keep fleets cleaner, safer, more available, and more profitable.
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How to Start a Carsharing Service in 2025: Step-by-Step Guide
In a time of shifting mobility habits, rising costs, and evolving user expectations, the Carsharing Association (CSA) brought together experts, operators, and advocates from across the globe to take stock of where the industry...
Read More- Our Common Purpose: Carsharing and Parking Reform April 30, 2026 2:18 pm
- Cars on Demand 2.0: Data, Digitalization, and the Principles That Make Carsharing Work April 30, 2026 1:12 pm
- Sharing in Success (2024) by Arthur D. Little November 13, 2025 1:54 pm
- Best Practices for EV Carsharing Programs (2024) by Forth Mobility November 13, 2025 1:53 pm
- SHARE-North Squared SN2 | Growing Shared Mobility in Housing Developments and Living as a Service August 15, 2025 2:11 pm
- Bremen’s Fight for Carsharing August 15, 2025 2:10 pm
- Implementing Mobility Hubs to Reduce Car Dependence in Cities – Urban Mobility Courses August 15, 2025 2:09 pm
- Bremen’s 30-Year Car Sharing Strategy: €200M Saved and 10,000 Fewer Cars August 15, 2025 2:08 pm
- Guide for Assessing Carsharing Viability in your City July 2, 2025 12:15 pm
- Understanding the Car Sharing Business Model and How to Build Yours July 2, 2025 12:14 pm
- Future-Proofing Car Sharing Operation July 2, 2025 12:11 pm
- How to Minimize the Pain of Switching Car Sharing Telematics Provider July 2, 2025 12:08 pm
- From Zero to Launch: Montreal Carsharing May 13, 2025 8:24 am
- Demystifying Carshare in the Twin Cities: Webinar – Move Minneapolis Ft. HOURCAR/Evie April 1, 2025 1:33 pm
- Fleet optimization: Measuring Fleet Downtime (Webinar) March 7, 2025 12:22 pm
- Changing Car Culture: Learning from Peg City Car Co-op (Laura Rempel, Beth McKechnie – 2012) February 27, 2025 6:31 pm
- Carsharing: Sydney Snapshot (Phillip Boyle & Associates – 2016) February 27, 2025 6:31 pm
- Carsharing and Public Parking Policies: Assessing Benefits, Costs, and Best Practices in North America (Mineta Transportation Institute – 2010) February 27, 2025 6:29 pm
- Car Sharing at a Mile High (International Parking Institute – 2016) February 27, 2025 6:28 pm
- Baromètre National Autopartage 2022 France February 27, 2025 6:27 pm
- Accelerating Your Carsharing EV Fleet – The “On the Ground” Experience February 27, 2025 6:27 pm
- A Changing Relationship with the Car (The Insurance Institute of Canada – 2014) February 27, 2025 6:26 pm
- 4 Concepts to Help Solve the Relocation Problem (Movmi) February 27, 2025 6:25 pm
- Regulating App-based Mobility: Case Studies from Bangkok, Manila and Phnom Penh October 24, 2024 10:47 am
- Zipcar Impact Report – 2022 October 24, 2024 10:44 am
- How Bilkollektivet (Norway) tripled its user numbers February 7, 2024 1:39 pm
- Observed Patterns of Use and Users of Free-Floating Car- Sharing April 1, 2023 12:00 am
- Tim Papandreou – Carsharing’s Place in the Future of Mobility February 5, 2020 7:37 am
- Ridecell – The Path to Autonomous Carsharing February 5, 2020 7:36 am
- Navigating Insurance Policies: What Carshare Companies Need to Know when Buying Insurance Policies for the First Time (Movmi) May 9, 2019 7:39 am
- Selecting a Carshare Technology Vendor (Movmi 2018) May 9, 2019 7:37 am
- Travel Behavior: Shared Mobility and Transportation Equity (Shaheen, Susan; Bell, Corwin; Cohen, Adam; and Yelchuru, Balaji – U.S. Department of Transportation 2017) July 7, 2018 4:03 pm
- New York City DOT Carshare Pilot July 7, 2018 3:21 pm
- Portland Carsharing Parking Administrative Rules July 7, 2018 3:20 pm
- Congestion and Reliability Review (Austroads – 2016) July 7, 2018 3:11 pm
- The Impact of Car Share Services in Australia (Phillip Boyle & Associates – 2016) July 7, 2018 3:06 pm
- Transport on Demand: Accelerating Australian Cities (AECOM – 2016) July 7, 2018 3:05 pm
- Sharing as sociomaterial practice: Car sharing and the material reconstitution of automobility (Robyn Dowling, Sophia Maalsen, Jennifer L. Kent – 2018) July 7, 2018 3:04 pm
- The Evolution of Car Share in the City of Sydney (City of Sydney – 2018) July 7, 2018 3:03 pm
- The Vehicle Relocation Problem for the One-way Electric Vehicle Sharing: An Application to the Milan Case (Maurizio Bruglieri, Alberto Colorni, Alessandro Luè – 2014) July 7, 2018 3:02 pm
- Energy, Environmental and Mobility Impacts of Car-sharing Systems: Empirical Results from Lisbon, Portugal (Patrícia Baptista, Sandra Melo, Catarina Rolim – 2014) July 7, 2018 3:01 pm
- Fundamentals of dynamic pricing model for car sharing and car rental businesses (Mobiag – 2017) July 7, 2018 2:58 pm
- Free-floating carsharing outlook (Vulog – 2017) July 7, 2018 2:57 pm
- How to promote car-sharing to people who love their own cars (Rotterdam School of Management – 2018) July 7, 2018 2:56 pm
- The State of European Car-Sharing (Intelligent Energy Europe:) July 7, 2018 2:55 pm
- Options to Account for Car Share Programs in Parking Standards (ACT Canada – 2009) July 7, 2018 12:55 pm
- Metro Vancouver Car Share Study Technical Report (Metro Vancover – 2014) July 7, 2018 12:39 pm
- Parking – a key component of integrated sustainable mobility (The Canadian Parking Association – 2014) July 7, 2018 12:38 pm
- Worksheet for Developers (Modo – 2016) July 7, 2018 12:22 pm
- The Ideal Carsharing City (CSA Presentation to the Conference Board of Canada – 2018) July 7, 2018 12:21 pm
- Pan-Canadian Perspectives: Regulating car-sharing in Regina (Public Policy & Governance Review – 2018) July 7, 2018 12:21 pm
- The evolution of carsharing: heterogeneity in adoption and impacts (Michiko Namazu, UBC – 2017) July 7, 2018 12:20 pm
- Innovative Mobility: Carsharing Outlook (UC Berkeley Transportation Sustainability Research Center – 2018) July 7, 2018 12:19 pm
- Cars on Demand 2.0: Data, Digitalization, and the Principles That Make Carsharing Work April 30, 2026 1:12 pm
- Carsharing Impact Report Bremen, 2018 August 15, 2025 2:11 pm
- Bremen’s 30-Year Car Sharing Strategy: €200M Saved and 10,000 Fewer Cars August 15, 2025 2:08 pm
- Electric Carsharing: Transforming Mobility for Users, Cities, and Operators July 2, 2025 12:12 pm
- German Carsharing Report 2025: Bundesverband Carsharing March 25, 2025 9:36 am
- Car Sharing Market Expected to Reach USD 464.69 Billion by 2032 March 3, 2025 12:19 pm
- Shared Mobility City Index (SMCI) 2019 March 2, 2025 12:45 pm
- Carsharing: Part of the “Smart mobility” research report (Deloitte – 2015) February 27, 2025 6:31 pm
- Carsharing Industry Analysis: The Problem of Fleet Relocation (Movmi – 2018) February 27, 2025 6:30 pm
- Analyse effecten van groei deelautopark / Analysis of the effects of the growth of the shared car fleet (2021) February 27, 2025 6:30 pm
- Carsharing in Germany – present state and future development (Nov 2022) February 27, 2025 6:29 pm
- Zipcar Impact Report – 2022 October 24, 2024 10:44 am
- Observed Patterns of Use and Users of Free-Floating Car- Sharing April 1, 2023 12:00 am
- Shared-use Mobility Center: Annual Report (2016) July 7, 2018 4:06 pm
- The Impact of Car Share Services in Australia (Phillip Boyle & Associates – 2016) July 7, 2018 3:06 pm
- The State of European Car-Sharing (Intelligent Energy Europe:) July 7, 2018 2:55 pm
- Metro Vancouver Car Share Study Technical Report (Metro Vancover – 2014) July 7, 2018 12:39 pm
- Shared Mobility: Removing Regulatory Barriers in Canadian Cities November 13, 2025 1:47 pm
- Car-sharing: Where and How It Succeeds (Transportation Research Board TCRP Report 108) November 13, 2025 1:46 pm
- City of Yellowknife Carsharing Bylaw February 27, 2025 6:33 pm
- City of Sydney Car Sharing Policy February 27, 2025 6:32 pm
- City of Ottawa Carsharing Services provisions February 27, 2025 6:32 pm
- City of Melbourne Car Share Policy February 27, 2025 6:32 pm
- City of Calgary Carshare Parking Policy Update (2018) February 27, 2025 6:31 pm
- Car Sharing: State Laws and Legislation – National Conference of State Legislatures (2017) February 27, 2025 6:28 pm
- Shared Mobility: Removing Regulatory Barriers in Canadian Cities (Équiterre – 2017) July 7, 2018 4:04 pm
- Wellington City Council Car Share Policy July 7, 2018 3:22 pm
- New York City DOT Carshare Pilot July 7, 2018 3:21 pm
- Portland Carsharing Parking Administrative Rules July 7, 2018 3:20 pm
- San Francisco Car-Share Requirements and Guidelines July 7, 2018 3:19 pm
- Free-Floating Car-Share Pilot and Interim Policy – City of Toronto July 7, 2018 3:12 pm
- Options to Account for Car Share Programs in Parking Standards (ACT Canada – 2009) July 7, 2018 12:55 pm
- Pan-Canadian Perspectives: Regulating car-sharing in Regina (Public Policy & Governance Review – 2018) July 7, 2018 12:21 pm
- MOBI-MIX Insight Report (POLIS Network, 2021) November 13, 2025 1:51 pm
- New Shared Mobility Solutions (Evergreen Canada, Oct 2022) November 13, 2025 1:50 pm
- Shared Mobility Current Practices and Guiding Principles (Federal Highway Administration FHWA–HOP-16-022, 2016) November 13, 2025 1:49 pm
- Benefits of Carsharing for Cities & Users February 27, 2025 6:28 pm
- An Analysis of the Scootershare Industry and Major Technology Vendors (Movmi 2018) February 27, 2025 6:27 pm
- Transforming transport with shared mobility | Sandra Phillips TED Talk (Movmi) May 9, 2019 11:43 am
- Ready for MaaS? (UITP Policy Brief) May 9, 2019 11:42 am
- Mobility as a Service Report (UITP 2019) May 9, 2019 11:40 am
- Transit-Oriented Communities: Design Guidelines (Translink) July 7, 2018 4:09 pm
- Vancouver Transportation 2040 Plan July 7, 2018 4:08 pm
- UITP Combined Mobility Toolbox July 7, 2018 4:08 pm
- Library of the Canadian Urban Transit Association July 7, 2018 4:07 pm
- Shared Mobility and the Transformation of Public Transit (American Public Transportation Association – 2016) July 7, 2018 4:06 pm
- Shared Mobility Toolkit (Shared-Use Mobility Center – 2016) July 7, 2018 4:05 pm
- Shared Mobility: Removing Regulatory Barriers in Canadian Cities (Équiterre – 2017) July 7, 2018 4:04 pm
- Mobility on Demand Operational Concept Report Shaheen, Susan; Cohen, Adam; Yelchuru, Balaji; and Sarkhili, Sara – U.S. Department of Transportation 2017) July 7, 2018 4:03 pm
- Travel Behavior: Shared Mobility and Transportation Equity (Shaheen, Susan; Bell, Corwin; Cohen, Adam; and Yelchuru, Balaji – U.S. Department of Transportation 2017) July 7, 2018 4:03 pm
- Shared Mobility Policy Briefs: Definitions, Impacts, and Recommendations (Transportation Sustainability Research Center – 2018) July 7, 2018 4:02 pm
- Transport on Demand: Accelerating Australian Cities (AECOM – 2016) July 7, 2018 3:05 pm
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