World Carshare Discussion Groups

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Idea Factory? Yep, that's what goes on here. Here are several thousand to get you going. Check it out (making use of that good Search engine to narrow the field) , and add to it with your own information, questions and ideas. (This is an example of what we call an (almost entirely) Self-Organizing Collaborative Network, a concept which is at the core of everything we do. )

Here you will find direct one-click links to a fast growing handful of international discussion groups and current news sources which serve specific interest groups exchanging ideas and information on carsharing from a number of angles and country perspectives. You may wish to check into these and eventually participate in the discussions as your time and taste permit. (And should you note that any important discussion forum is missing here or incorrectly described, a quick email here should suffice to help us fix it.)

Your first stop shop for discussions and exchange of information on carsharing from a true world wide perspective. Hundreds of the world's leading innovators, scholars, and supporters of carsharing get together here to exchange information and comments every day. Efficiently!

By clicking here you will be taken to our latest listing of the growing collection (presently more than one dozen) of regional and national carsharing web sites and blogs.

How it all looks from a British perspective.

Information, issues, ideas and discussions for U.S. and North American carsharing services. Maintained by Dave Brook.

Massive world wide overview and database. Here is a collection of web and group discussions of concerns, benefits, attitudes, etc. of carsharing. Rather interesting collection of widely diversified individual views and testimonials (and complaints, etc.).

And from the German perspective too. (And it's a good opportunity as well for you to brush up your German. It needs work to be honest. But if that does not work, you can also use the handy Google translator.)

This is the informal chat forum for less structured exchanges and brainstorming on our topic. (Presently not as active as main Forum.)

World news on carsharing developments

If you are interested in what is going on world wide, this is a must stop for you. Captures only news in international press over the last month. Typically more than one hundred items with world wide coverage.

All Google references to our selected keywords for last six months. More than two hundred thousand at last count ... Latest entries up top.

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Some more general discussion groups in the New Mobility area more broadly (the context for carsharing) are listed below.

Related discussions and new groups

This forum goes back more than a decade, and at present serves more than five hundred transportation experts, activists and policy makers world wide. It is a "strictly business" list, with the more conversational exchanges and discussions taking place in the .. .

offers a free, public, flexible discussion space for people and groups who feel that our transport systems need to be, and can be made to be, more sustainable and more just -- and who wish to freely exchange ideas and information about it.

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The Sustainable Transport Action Network for Asia & the Pacific -- an email discussion list devoted to people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). "Sustran-Discuss has become the main discussion forum on urban transport in developing countries." Discussions are well focused, expert-based and of very high quality.

But how are we ever going to pay for all this? Check out our very busy Land Cafe if you are on the lookout for new thinking on this critical topic.

This is the discussion group of a community of practice that began with a program on mainstreaming Gender into the World Bank's Transport Sector. It is open to all those who are interested in issues relating to improving mobility and access for poor women and men in developing countries.

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Universities' Transport Study Group. Well organized expert discussions of sustainable mobility issues and approaches, with notices on events and academic openings, mainly in Britain. Run by the Institute for Transport Studies of Leeds University.

This virtual Forum is a platform where the Scientific Committee members of the European MO.VE program come together to debate and elaborate scientific inputs to be presented and discussed during the international Forum. The virtual forum is open to all experts that want to provide scientific inputs and contribute to the international discussion on sustainable mobility.

A pot pourri of several thousand discussions and messages relating to our topic and coming from many places, presented here in chronological order.

Free flow chat sessions on how to achieve "car free city solutions to the vexing problem of urban automobiles." Includes discussion of transport and energy issues. Intended for discussion of personal experiences as they relate to the larger issues. Moderated by Carfree.com.

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300 list members discuss and explore issues related to eliminating or reducing one's reliance on automotive transport. Celebrates non-polluting forms of transportation such as walking and bicycling while encouraging the use of mass transit as well as other life style changes providing an alternative to auto-centric perspectives. Very personal, laid back approach.

The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) was set up in 1985, to promote environmentally sustainable and equitable transportation policies and projects worldwide.

NYC-area non-profit citizens group working for better bicycling, walking and public transit, and fewer cars. We work for safer, calmer neighborhood streets and car-free parks

The Transportation Communications Newsletter is a free daily e-mail publication which provides news and information related to all aspects of communications in the transportation field. This includes a wide variety of topics such as: public and community relations, ITS, traveler information, outreach, and transportation operations. All modes of transport are included.

Your Suggestions/Contributions:
Surely we have missed something that you know about and which should be on this list. So, if you have an idea or recommendation to share with us all, this is the place to do it.

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