The Change Mariner: Car Sharing Spurring Fundamental Travel Changes

October 23, 2003

Car Sharing Spurring Fundamental Travel Changes

San Francisco Bay Area's City CarShare, a non-profit car sharing organization, is showing measurable impacts in reducing vehicular travel, individual transportation costs, private car ownership and environmental hazards, according to a new University of California, Berkeley, report.
The findings by Robert Cervero, a professor of city and regional planning with UC Berkeley's Institute of Urban and Regional Development, represent the latest in his three-year evaluation of City CarShare's effects on travel, car ownership, the environment, parking and the quality of life in various neighborhoods.

When car sharing programs first began, positive social, economic and environmental effects were touted as potential outcomes, and Cervero's study, financed by the Federal Highway Administration's Value Pricing Program, shows that many hoped-for benefits have occurred.

City CarShare provides its service in San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland and Palo Alto, California, and on the UC Berkeley campus. More information is available at the City CarShare website at: CityCarShare.org

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