If you live in a city. . . and if you drive less than 10,000 kilometers a year. . . you should probably consider carsharing. The Carshare Video Library - Check it out International suppliers of service & support The World CarShare Consortium This free, cooperative, independent, international communications program supports carsharing projects and programs, world wide. Since 1997 it offers a convenient place on the web to gather and share information and independent views on projects and approaches, past, present and planned future, freely and easily available to all comers. Why we support carsharing? Why does The Commons support a concept that may to some appear to be so off-beat and marginal as carsharing? Simple! We think it's a great, sustainable, practical mobility idea whose time has come and whose potential impact is quite simply huge. Carsharing: the missing link in your city's sustainable transport system. 600 world cities where you can carshare today Think that this is still a marginal phenomenon involving a few ragged Greens here and there? Check out this listing to see where you can get a shared car in more than 600 cities world wide. World CarShare Operator Inventory Want to have a better idea of what these services and projects look like? Check out the world inventory for full details. (And if you spot errors or anything missing, be sure to let us know.) The New Mobility Advisory/Briefs The Advisory/Briefs have taken strategic carshare organization as one of the first challenges. The target is specifically to help mayor and city administrators better understand what it is that they need to ask of carshare operators in their community. And what they need to be prepared to understand and do in turn to help this new form of sustainable transport partnership to succeed. Accelerated Learning Sessions Two day Master Classes which bring city decisions makers, administrators and their senior staffs and advisors, face to face with some of the leading carshare operators and authorities, to explore together how these partnerships can be made to succeed. The first sessions are scheduled for Europe in March 2007. Others currently under discussion in other parts of the world. Making a success of your project Over the years a considerable background of experience and supporting information and expertise have been accumulated. No reason you have to rediscover the wheel with your project. Click here for leads and helpful sources. " International cooperation and support Teams trying to make carsharing operations work in their cities often have a lonely up-hill task. One of the jobs of the Consortium is to use our network and experience to support projects and teams when a helping, expert hand is needed. The New Mobility Agenda The leading edge of thinking and practice in the transport field has moved a long way over the last years, and a successful carsharing project must take this into account. The New Mobility Agenda is one good way to get a feel for the important developments that are reshaping the broader policy environment behind carsharing. Welcome to The Commons A shared public space on the Internet, providing a wide open, world-wide, non-government forum with working tools and assembly areas for people and groups concerned with improving our understanding and control of technology as it impacts on people in their daily lives. The bottom line: sustainable development and social justice. Check into our Idea Factory! Carsharing Master Classes for Cities     Home World Inventory Idea Factory   Latest changes   Contact   Top   Le Frene, 8/10 rue Joseph Bara 75006 Paris, France, Europe. T: +331 4326 1323 Copyright © 1994-2007 The Commons ® All rights reserved. Last updated on 6 December 2006