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

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,