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

The largest carsharing not-for-profit in the United States has released a report the quantifying the social, environmental and economic impacts of its shared vehicle fleet on the community of San Francisco.  Measurable reductions in carbon dioxide emissions and vehicle miles travelled improve the city’s air quality and traffic congestion.  Individual member-drivers have save thousands of

A new carsharing service called Autopartage Codiac Autoshare is expected to launch in Moncton, New Brunswick with four vehicles later this year. The service will be classic, two-way carsharing where members pay for vehicle use by the hour and/or by the kilometer, pick up and drop off the vehicle at the same “home” location. See

Shared-vehicle mobility is a complement to public transit systems.  The CarSharing Association is encouraging people to “get out of private car ownership” by presenting people with a multi-modal array transportation choices including walking, biking, bus, train and carsharing.  Our member organizations have worked with local transit authorities and municipal governments to secure strategic locations for

The City of Montreal wants to know what the people think of one-way carsharing. In other North American cities, Car2Go has introduced one-way carsharing services and secured on-street parking privileges with local government without public consultation.  For example, Car2Go deployed 150 vehicles in Calgary last July after making an agreement with the Calgary Parking Authority. Some

HOURCAR announced a major expansion today. The Twin Cities homegrown car-sharing operator will increase its fleet to at least 70 vehicles over the next 18 months, extending service to as many as 3,500 users in diverse Minneapolis and Saint Paul neighborhoods. Funds for the expansion were provided by the McKnight Foundation and the Central Corridor