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Aligning users’ and stakeholders’ needs: How incentives can reshape the carsharing market

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  • Cantelmo, Guido
  • Amini, Roja Ezzati
  • Monteiro, Mayara Moraes
  • Frenkel, Amnon
  • Lerner, Ofer
  • Tavory, Sharon Shoshany
  • Galtzur, Ayelet
  • Kamargianni, Maria
  • Shiftan, Yoram
  • Behrischi, Christiane
  • Azevedo, Carlos M. Lima
  • Haustein, Sonja
  • Antoniou, Constantinos

Abstract

Carsharing services provide users with a new way of approaching mobility and accessing shared vehicles. Since the initial pilot studies in the early 90s, technological innovations (e.g., advances in mobile technology, increased range of electric cars) and the establishment of new business models (e.g, station-based, free-floating, peer-to-peer, packages by time and/or kilometres) helped branding carsharing as a sustainable yet flexible and personalized mobility alternative. On the other hand, the carsharing market today is extremely scattered, as it can include multiple operators, which are often in competition among each other. While this variety of operators provides the user with a variety of travel options, without proper coordination, this competition can reduce the efficiency of the carsharing market and, in extreme cases, of the entire transportation system.

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  • Cantelmo, Guido & Amini, Roja Ezzati & Monteiro, Mayara Moraes & Frenkel, Amnon & Lerner, Ofer & Tavory, Sharon Shoshany & Galtzur, Ayelet & Kamargianni, Maria & Shiftan, Yoram & Behrischi, Christiane, 2022. "Aligning users’ and stakeholders’ needs: How incentives can reshape the carsharing market," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 126(C), pages 306-326.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:trapol:v:126:y:2022:i:c:p:306-326
    DOI: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2022.07.009
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