Making a carshare operation work in a competitive and often less than inviting environment is a highly challenging and in many ways quite lonely business. The basic operational concepts may be quite clear to those of us who work with them, but for the general public, the media -- and above all, it seems, what should be our active and supportive public sector partners -- it is more often than not a strange, not to say weird and weak concept.

When you speak to most people about the idea of sharing a car, what you invariably get is a smile and a long explanation as to how that just won't work. Or even if it might work in Place X, it surely won't "here" because car owners in (put in country name) have such a strong relationships with their cars that they simply will never consider any alternative relationship. And yet, they will. Or at least many of them because carsharing is an idea for the 21st century that just makes sense for a very large number of people.

So thank all the gods for the Internet and the ways in which we can use it to exchange ideas, information, cautions, and various forms of support to those of our hard working colleagues around the world who otherwise.

This section is organized in three main parts: (i) our World Inventory of Carshare Operators, (ii) Regional Groupings, and (iii) links to National Groupings. In each case these are living inventories, which are developed with the help of our members and colleagues world wide. If you have any ideas or suggestions for us, be sure to let us know here.

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