This is different than two-way car sharing, which requires a driver to pick up and return a vehicle at the same spot, or peer-to-peer car sharing, which involves privately owned vehicles. The three-year study examined the impact of the Car2go service in Seattle, San Diego, Washington DC and two Canadian cities, Calgary and Vancouver. “Car sharing is a more useful service when you can scale it up and connect it with other modes of transportation.” As a result, car sharing services can help local governments that come under increasing pressure to meet ambitious emissions targets and aim to make public transportation more accessible. Of the five cities in the study, those with the largest public transportation and car sharing programs had the biggest impact, Feigon noted.

Source: The Guardian July 23, 2016 14:26 UTC