On 4 July the RAC Foundation published the study “Car Rental 2.0”, authored by CTS’ Dr. Scott Le Vine.
The study finds that shared-mobility systems are evolving rapidly and can have real impacts on traffic levels and sustainability. Dr. Le Vine reports that one-way car clubs – think Boris Bikes but with shared-cars – could be a game-changer, with a potential market of over 1.5M Londoners for a system like Paris’ Autolib http://www.paris.fr/autolib. The study proceeds to set the shared-mobility agenda for the coming years: the choices facing the public sector and industry, data standards for monitoring the sustainability impacts, the need for robustness in back-office and wireless communications systems, and the high-priority research questions.
Dr. Le Vine discusses the study’s implications in an Imperial podcast titled ‘Boris Bangers’:
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