This section of the site is given over to providing details, useful references and supporting background on the City Carsharing Policy/Strategies track. In the meantime, we invite you to consult the information from the left menus here which offer a rich background resource for your city or group, even if your schedule does not permit you to join us in Monaco.

For now our objective is to provide you with a first idea of the considerable base of information and opinions (many and quite nicely contradictory as one might well expect) which are being cranked out as interest in the sector accelerates. But the art of policy lies in ones ability to synthesize all this detail and these contradictions into a coherent, well thought-out world-level carshare strategy for your city. That will be our job in Monaco.

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Track 1: Key Building Blocks/Organization

There will be eight main building blocks shaping the Monaco 2007 Carshare Strategies track. (Final details to appear here in the first days of March.)

1. Lightening Brainstorms: 2 + 2 minutes (exactly!) To open the meeting, questions/challenges by anyone who steps forward in advance with a good point or idea - including videos. Invited brainstormers have 2 or less minutes to make a single point or ask a single question. There will then be exactly two minutes available for responses or discussion by the person or team addressed, or otherwise as the moderator may chose. The time control will be draconian, Brežnev-style. Opportunities will be made available later for further discussion as seems useful for all. (Get in touch early with organizers to arrange your participation.)

2. International Overview: Carsharing 2007-2010: The New Mobility Advisory/Briefs report on Carshare Spring 2007). (Click here for more on this report which is to be made freely available in advance to all registered participants)

3. Leading operators/suppliers: Short strategic policy presentations by the founders and chief officers of the most advanced carsharing programs in Britain, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, and perhaps in other countries as step forward here.

4. City Carshare programs and strategies: Presentations by leading European city teams who summarize their experience, lessons learned, ideas and perspective on how to make carsharing work. Among the critical issues to be probed from the perspective of the city - the importance of having a specific detailed strategy to deal with the following key points:
   
   • Subsidies (local, other)
   • Parking
   • Legal, regulatory, licensing issues and obstacles
   • Planning, policy, taxation
   • Relationships and linkages with: public transport providers, rail services, car rental firms, taxis and other transport service providers, energy programs, cycling programs, associations and environmental public interest groups, good delivery, business groups, employers associations, labor groups/unions)
   • Administrative help from city (marketing, communications, office space, support services)
   • Direct city participation (i.e.,. incentives, etc. for city and other public service employees)
   • Fleet management possibilities (public and private)
   • Area targeting
   • Competition/ alterative providers of carshare services

5. National support programs: National carshare policy programs and perspectives
   • Swiss Federal Office for Energy: 2006 Evaluation CarSharing report
   • France (ADEME, GART, Prédit, other)
   • Italian: ICS Carsharing, Other
   • Other European national programs(to be specified)

6. International carshare programs: cooperation and exchanges
   • European Commission - and collaborative EU programs
   • UITP Carsharing Platform
   • World Carshare Consortium

7. Closing Round Table and Recommendations: bringing together both sides of the carsharing policy puzzle, with questions and discussion from the audience. (Students participating in Monaco 2007 "Youth and Sustainable Development" debates will be invited here.)

8. City Carshare Open Houses: Over Friday and Saturday arrangements are available for presentations, poster sessions and discussions led by suppliers, cities, country groups or others who wish to take advantage of the presence in Monaco of people and groups who are among the international leaders in this field. Get in touch with us here to make arrangements for your meeting or presentation.

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Issues under discussion

The following points are among those that have come up repeatedly over the last months in discussions with carshare operators, experts and city colleagues across Europe and North America as part of the run-up to this session; so we list them here to give you a better idea perhaps of the range and focus of the discussions during this very intense one day A/L Session. There is a lot of ground to be covered here as you can see; we shall try to cover those that are most important from the vantage of cities and organizations that are there to make carsharing happen.

• Good practice presentations
• Optimizing carsharing operations
• Critical analysis with in-depth commentaries by main actors and observers
• Shortcomings, differences, problems, barriers, recuperation strategies, fine-tuning, things forgotten ?
• Heavy focus on local government relations, interface, cooperation and interactions
• Can strong carsharing programs transform the city? How? Why is it important?
• What does city government need to do to ensure full success?
• Who else needs to be involved in the process ?
• The Mayor's Page (Why in a page you should. And why it may be a bad idea for your city.)
• What is carsharing
• A multi-product business (residential, business, fleet management, etc.)
• Local partnerships - the key to success: Which local partners & how they can make it succeed
• What can go wrong (and how maybe you can fix or avoid it.)
• Can carsharing help poor people (and if so how)?
• Short expert notes on planning & implementing a project (the main stages) from:
  • A European perspective;
  • An American perspective;
  • An Asian perspective
• Communications and problem solving in the community
• More than one CSO in your city? Good? Bad? Confusing? So what do you do now?
• Supporting independent local start-ups
• If I were a rental firm, I would . . .
• And if I were a car manufacture, I would . . .
• The expanding role of logistics and mobile telephony
• The five next big things in carsharing
• Bibliography (The ten sources you had best have close at hand)
• Key links and sources (ten, organized by region and country for convenience)
• Where to turn for help in your project or plan
• Better, Faster, Cheaper (Other ways to achieve your objectives)
• Ten most important recommendations local government and local partners (in form of Manifesto?)
• Follow-up recommendations and next steps

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